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🔾

lower right shadowed white circle

Lower Right Shadowed White Circle

🔾 is a decorative geometric mark associated with the Wingdings symbol font. In a message, nearby words or layout determine what role it plays.

Text symbol

Also called: circle shadow down
Search it as: Wingdings · Webdings · dingbat · shadowed white circle
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🔾 means

It is decoration, not a standard reaction. As of 2026, a standalone 🔾 has no reliable conversational reading. It is drawn by a font, so its outline can vary: Unicode’s 2012 notes allow the source font’s shape, the Unicode reference shape, or an intermediate version.

The Wingdings designs date to 1990–1991, and Microsoft released the font in 1992 for computer-interface icons, bullets, and ornaments. A 2011 Unicode proposal called this mark “circle shadow down.” The encoding work aimed to make font symbols usable across systems and searchable; it did not give 🔾 a new message meaning.

Decorative and context-dependent; it suits a design better than a standalone reply.

Alone, it can look accidental.

Don't confuse it with

❍

Shadowed White Circle

A separate shadowed-circle character; 🔾 is distinguished by its lower-right shadow.

🔿

Upper Right Shadowed White Circle

Its shadow is upper-right, the opposite corner from 🔾.

Questions people ask

Why 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.

How to type 🔾

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1F53E, then Alt+X to get 🔾.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “lower right shadowed white circle”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f53e, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🔾

CSS

\1F53E

Wingdings m

In pre-Unicode Wingdings, the Latin letter m displayed as 🔾; switching fonts revealed the letter instead. This font mapping did not enter a portable Unicode character.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🔾

HTML hex

🔾

CSS content

content: "\1F53E";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%94%BE

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Pictures158 symbols

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