What ◦ means
Treat ◦ as formatting first. This hollow bullet starts an item or marks a second level in a bullet-point list, so a lone ◦ in chat has no fixed emotional meaning.
Why does ◦ look different in another app?
The font and list style control its shape. Your font can draw it larger, thinner, higher, or more oval. Web lists may use a hollow-circle marker instead, which looks similar without using this exact character.
Neutral and editorial; in chat it reads as formatting, not feeling.
Do not send it alone to express emotion.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAt the start of a list
A separate item or point follows.
Indented below a filled bullet
A nested sub-bullet item follows.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Can I use ◦ in HTML or CSS?
It can. Paste it as text, or use a hollow-circle list style when you want the browser to handle bullets.
How to type ◦
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 25E6, 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 “white bullet”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 25e6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
◦CSS
\25E6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
◦
HTML hex
◦
CSS content
content: "\25E6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%97%A6
1
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.