White Circle With Lower Right Quadrant

Group: Geometric shapes

Keywords

geometric

About this character

White Circle With Lower Right Quadrant belongs to the Geometric shapes group and is encoded at U+25F6. 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+25F6
Hex: 25F6
Decimal: 9718
HTML: ◶
CSS: \25F6
JavaScript: \u25F6
Python: \u25F6
UTF-8: E2 97 B6

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

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.