Circle Emojis
11 emojis tagged circle in the official Unicode CLDR project. Click any emoji for its meaning, copy-paste, and per-platform rendering.
Circle emojis cover colored circles and disc shapes — ⭕ hollow red circle, 🔴 red circle, 🟠 orange circle, 🟡 yellow circle, 🟢 green circle, 🔵 blue circle, 🟣 purple circle, 🟤 brown circle, ⚫ black circle, and ⚪ white circle. The full color set arrived in Unicode 12 (2019), expanding the previous limited circle set. Use them for color-coded lists, traffic-light status indicators (🔴 🟡 🟢 for red/yellow/green project status), and visual labeling in chat. They pair with the matching square set for combined visualizations.
Frequently asked about circle emojis
What does the red/yellow/green circle convention mean?
🔴 🟡 🟢 has become near-universal project-status shorthand: red = blocked/critical, yellow = at risk/needs attention, green = on track. The convention comes from traffic lights and corporate dashboards. Many project-management tools (Asana, Jira) use the same color logic, reinforcing the emoji convention.
When were the colored circles added?
Unicode 12 (2019) added 🟠 orange, 🟡 yellow, 🟢 green, 🟣 purple, and 🟤 brown circles alongside the existing 🔴 red, 🔵 blue, ⚫ black, and ⚪ white. The expansion was driven by accessibility requests to enable color-coded status indicators in apps without arbitrary graphics.
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