What is the difference between Bullseye and Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot?

Bullseye is U+25CE in the Geometric Shapes block. Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot is U+233E in the Miscellaneous Technical block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Bullseye?

The HTML entity for Bullseye (U+25CE) is ◎.

What is the HTML entity for Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot?

The HTML entity for Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot (U+233E) is ⌾.

Are Bullseye and Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot the same Unicode character?

No. Bullseye is U+25CE (decimal 9678) and Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot is U+233E (decimal 9022). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Bullseye and Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot?

Bullseye (U+25CE) encodes as E2 97 8E in UTF-8. Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot (U+233E) encodes as E2 8C BE in UTF-8.

Bullseye vs Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

◎

Bullseye

U+25CE

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⌾

Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot

U+233E

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Property Comparison

Property	Bullseye	Apl Functional Symbol Circle Jot
Codepoint	`U+25CE`	`U+233E`
Decimal	`9678`	`9022`
HTML Entity	`◎`	`⌾`
HTML Decimal	`◎`	`⌾`
HTML Hex	`◎`	`⌾`
UTF-8	`E2 97 8E`	`E2 8C BE`
UTF-16	`25 CE`	`23 3E`
UTF-32	`000025CE`	`0000233E`
CSS Escape	`\25CE`	`\233E`
JS Escape	`\u25CE`	`\u233E`
Python Escape	`\u25CE`	`\u233E`
URL Encoded	`%E2%97%8E`	`%E2%8C%BE`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Geometric Shapes`	`Miscellaneous Technical`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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