What ◖ means
It shows a filled left semicircle. A diagram can assign the shape a special value through its key or label.
In a browser, fallback fonts can change the glyph’s proportions; as of 2026, check the target typeface before relying on exact geometry.
What matches ◖ on the other side?
is the matching right-half circle.
The matching right half black circle fills the opposite side, so the two distinguish which way the black half faces.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Right Half Black Circle
◗ is the matching right half black circle: it fills the side opposite ◖, making the two characters mirrored halves that distinguish left from right.
Circle With Left Half Black
◐ is the full-circle version: the same black left half plus an outlined white right half. ◖ is the black half alone.
Top Half Black Circle
The same bare black half disc, turned to face up (top half black circle).
Combination ideas
3Two half discs meeting into one dot
Rounded pill-shaped label around a word
Bead-like decorative border
Questions people ask
1Why does ◖ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ◖
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How to type or find ◖
- Search it as
- left half circle symbol · right half black circle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
◖CSS
\25D6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
◖
HTML hex
◖
CSS content
content: "\25D6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%97%96
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.