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U+1F534

🔴 Red circle

circle geometric red

Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Also known as
large red circle
Shortcode
Unicode version
6.0 (2010)
Emoji version
0.6 (2010)
Status
fully-qualified

What the 🔴 emoji means

A plain red disc. Recording, a live broadcast, or a status that wants attention.

Streamers set it beside the word live; trackers give it the worst of three states, with 🟡 and 🟢 taking the others. Nothing in the shape itself carries alarm — the sentence around it does.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 🔴

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

  • Apple always there
  • Google always there
  • Microsoft always there
  • Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 🔴 emoji is used

The 🔴 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how red circle is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English red circle
Русский красный круг
Deutsch roter Punkt
Español círculo rojo
Français disque rouge
Polski czerwone koło
Dansk rød cirkel
Українська червоний круг
Português círculo vermelho

Unicode CLDR 48

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