What ❍ means
Its lineage passes through Hermann Zapf’s dingbat collection.
A dingbat is a small mark in a typeface, used as an ornament or practical sign. Zapf’s collection included printer’s embellishments and graphic symbols for print and screens. In 1978, the International Typeface Corporation licensed 360 designs from his larger collection as ITC Zapf Dingbats.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Unselected choice in a text list.
Step one of three.
Round bullets for a plain-text list.
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
- circle with shadow · shadow circle symbol · dingbat circle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
❍CSS
\274DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❍
HTML hex
❍
CSS content
content: "\274D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%8D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.