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Black Vertical Ellipse

Group: Geometric shapes

Keywords

About this character

Black Vertical Ellipse belongs to the Geometric shapes group and is encoded at U+2B2E. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+2B2E
Hex
2B2E
Decimal
11054
HTML
⬮
CSS
\2B2E
JavaScript
\u2B2E
Python
\u2B2E
UTF-8
E2 AC AE

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Related

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.