Geometric Shapes (Unicode block)

Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.

U+25A0–U+25CF

The BLACK CIRCLE is displayed when typing in a password field, in order to hide characters from a screen recorder or shoulder surfing.

sets like Code2000 and the DejaVu family include coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range. Unifont also contains all the glyphs. Among the fonts in widespread use, full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% and 82% of the symbols, respectively.

The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji:
U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE.
The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style or text presentation for the
eight emoji.

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes block: