A plain red circle outline, and in Japan a maru like this means correct, the mark a teacher draws over a right answer, the opposite of the ❌ cross for wrong. Japanese grading runs a fuller scale: a double circle for outstanding, a triangle for half credit. Read with Western eyes, plain red usually suggests a warning, close to the opposite job.
What ⭕ means
A heavy red circular outline empty at the center. The ⭕ Hollow Red Circle emoji has more than just one meaning given its vague design. However, some prominent interpretations are emptiness, a void, a hoop, a definition, and inescapability.
How and when to use it
How and When to Use the ⭕ Hollow Red Circle Emoji
- Considering the unclaimed space at the center of ⭕, it could signify a void. So, if you're speaking of this emptiness in any context, this emoji may be of use. Like, "We become aware of the void as we fill it ⭕" or "You lack nothing ⭕. You are whole just the way you are".
- ⭕ may even symbolize a fiery outline or something that's bordered with fire, thus rendering anything in between inescapable and caged. For instance, "Death is inevitable ⭕" or "Life is inescapable until you choose to escape it ⭕".
- Throwing back to schooling and the horrendous sight of red circles around nauseating spellings and use of words, ⭕ may even interpret as a correction or the need to correct. For example, "Mistakes are the most valuable tools to growth ⭕" or "Correct your thoughts first ⭕".
- While posting or reposting pictures/videos of hooping, creating hoop jewelry, making hoop art in any form, and basically, anything to do with a hoop, you could use ⭕ in the caption.
Other Names
- ⭕ Heavy Red Circle
- ⭕ Red Circular Outline
- ⭕ Defining Circle
- ⭕ Hoop/Hooping
- ⭕ Space/Empty/Void
- ⭕ Correct
- ⭕ Circle Mark
- ⭕ Correct
- ⭕ Correction
- ⭕ Manual Spell Check
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › other-symbol
- Codepoints
U+2B55- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:o:- Keywords
- circle, heavy, hollow, large, o, red
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ⭕ Hollow Red Circle or 👨🦯 Man with White Cane?