⚪️White Circle Emoji
Generally, the ⚪️ emoji just means a white circle. It doesn’t have a super specific meaning beyond that.
The ⚪️ emoji is simply a white circle.
- Unicode
- U+26AA U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :white_circle:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⚪️ White Circle emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
White Circle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+26AA. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
White Circle emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :white_circle:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the white circle, code point U+26AA.
How to type the ⚪️ White Circle emoji
No picker to hand? The white circle can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
White Circle emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
White Circle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around white circle for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ⚪️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ⚪️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ⚪️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the white circle lands changes how it is taken.
⚪️ vs 🔴 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: White Circle
Code: U+26AA U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :white_circle:
Generally, the ⚪️ emoji just means a white circle.
Unicode name: Red Circle
Code: U+1F534 · added 2010
Shortcode: :red_circle:
Generally, the red circle means something is wrong, needs attention, or is a warning.
Where the ⚪️ White Circle emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⚪️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E69C, KDDI au E53A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
White Circle was approved as U+26AA U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⚪️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.