U+25CF

BLACK CIRCLE

So — Other Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
9679

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent BLACK CIRCLE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 97 8F 226 151 143 3
UTF-16 LE CF 25 207 37 2
UTF-16 BE 25 CF 37 207 2
UTF-32 LE CF 25 00 00 207 37 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 25 CF 0 0 37 207 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 81 9C 129 156 2
EUC-JP A1 FC 161 252 2
GBK A1 F1 161 241 2
Big5 A1 B4 161 180 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
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\25CF
\u25CF
%E2%97%8F
\u25cf
9679

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1
97
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
8F
UTF-8: E2 97 8F · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+25CF

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral

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