About Lower Half Circle
Lower Half Circle is the Unicode character ◡ at codepoint U+25E1 in the Geometric Shapes block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Lower Half Circle
To use the Lower Half Circle symbol (◡) in HTML, insert the
entity ◡ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ◡ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\25E1';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u25E1' evaluates to ◡. In Python source, write '\u25E1'.
The character encodes to E2 97 A1 as UTF-8 bytes and 25E1 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9697.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.