Symbols · Emoji 0.6
⭕️Hollow Red Circle Emoji
Generally, ⭕️ means "yes," "correct," or “right.” It’s a quick way to show you agree with something someone said or did.
The ⭕️ emoji is a hollow red circle.
- Unicode
- U+2B55 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :o:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ⭕️ Hollow Red Circle emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Hollow Red Circle emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the hollow red circle as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Hollow Red Circle emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :o:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2B55.
04 — How to type
How to type the ⭕️ Hollow Red Circle emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Hollow Red 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Hollow Red Circle emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hollow red circle for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ⭕️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What ⭕️ means in other countries
In Japan and Korea a circle marks a correct answer, the mirror opposite of an X, while in the West it has no fixed reading.
Marks a correct answer on tests and forms, paired with ❌ for wrong.
No established meaning; sometimes used loosely for “zero” or just emphasis.
Used generically to mark a hit, a goal, or a highlighted result.
Before you send it: Pairs with ❌ to mean right and wrong the Japanese way; spell it out elsewhere to avoid confusion.
09 — Apps
What ⭕️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Hollow Red Circle emoji
Same family (other-symbol) — often confused with hollow red circle or used alongside it.
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Collections ⭕️ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — History
Where the ⭕️ Hollow Red 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.
Same character every time — U+2B55 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
⭕️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6A0, KDDI au EAAD, SoftBank E332.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Hollow Red Circle was approved as U+2B55 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.
12 — FAQ