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🔵Blue Circle Emoji
🔵 is the blue circle emoji, U+1F535, one of 34 in the Shapes & Colors set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for blue, circle and geometric.
What 🔵 blue circle means
Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
Unicode tags this one blue, circle and geometric and files it under Symbols → Shapes & Colors.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F535 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🔵 | |
| HTML decimal | 🔵 | |
| CSS | \1F535 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F535} | |
| Python | \U0001F535 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD35 | |
| Rust | \u{1f535} | |
| Swift | \u{1F535} | |
| PHP | \u{1F535} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%94%B5 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 94 B5 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD35 | |
| Base64 | 8J+UtQ== | |
| Decimal | 128309 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🔵
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “blue circle”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “blue”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f535and Enter. - HTML — paste
🔵.
How 🔵 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🔵Apple
- 🔵Segoe
- 🔵Noto
- 🔵System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🔵 blue circle emoji mean?+
🔵 is the blue circle emoji, tagged blue, circle and geometric. Coloured circles, squares, diamonds and triangles used as bullets, swatches, progress bars and rating scales, since they line up neatly in a way faces never do. Most of the colours are recent: the orange, yellow, green, purple and brown circles and squares only arrived with Emoji 12.0 in 2019. Wordle later made the green, yellow and black squares instantly readable.
What is the Unicode code for 🔵?+
blue circle is U+1F535. In HTML that is 🔵, in CSS \1F535, and in JavaScript \u{1F535}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🔵 emoji added?+
blue circle got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Shapes & Colors in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🔵 blue circle.