Ring Operator is the Unicode character ∘ at codepoint U+2218 in the Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Ring Operator
To use the Ring Operator 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: '\2218';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2218' evaluates to ∘. In Python source, write '\u2218'.
The character encodes to E2 88 98 as UTF-8 bytes and 2218 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8728.
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.