Technical information

Symbol
NameUpper half circle
Unicode numberU+25E0
CategoryArcs
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◠, or U+25E0, is known as the "Upper Half Circle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character represents a circle that has been bisected horizontally, displaying only the top half. It is commonly used in various design contexts and can represent or be incorporated into a wide range of symbols, graphics, and icons. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity◠
HTML Entity (hex)◠
URL Escape Code%E2%97%A0
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0xA0
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10100000
UTF-160x25E0
UTF-320x000025E0

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25E0"
CSS Code\25E0
JavaScript"\u25E0"
Perl\x{25E0}
Python 2u"\u25E0"
Python 3\u25E0
Ruby\u{25E0}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ◠ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9696;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25E0";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References