What 🞅 means
It is a typographic shape; its specific role comes from the design.
A 2011 proposal mapped this form as “ring 3” in a Webdings/Wingdings-style geometric collection, so the visible ring predates its Unicode encoding. The Unicode 17.0 specification groups it with white-circle shapes intended to complement other shape sets and scale consistently across the family.
With font fallback, a missing glyph may appear as a box or a different circle, depending on the app and available fonts.
Technical and neutral; it reads as a design or diagram mark.
Check the font if stroke weight carries information.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Questions 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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How to type or find 🞅
- Search it as
- ring 3 · white ring · outlined circle · circle marker · circle glyph · Wingdings ring · Webdings ring · bold ring
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🞅\1F785Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.