White Circle

U+25CB
○

The ○ white circle sits in the useful middle ground between plain punctuation and emoji, especially for status dots, minimal bullets, outline markers.

In real use, it is most effective where status dots, minimal bullets, outline markers need a symbol that looks intentional but still behaves like normal text.

Unicode symbolscircleoutlinebulletstatusshape

How people use this symbol

The white circle is commonly copied for profiles, captions, UI labels, notes, and short-form text where people want more control than emoji styling usually gives them.

It fits especially well in plain text layouts because the character is lightweight, easy to paste, and usually easier to align with surrounding words than a colorful emoji glyph.

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Symbol details

Unicode
U+25CB
HTML
○
ASCII
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