Inverse Bullet
Part of Geometric Shapes
On Windows, hold Alt and type 8 on the numeric keypad to insert inverse bullet.
- Alt code
- Alt+8
- HTML entity
- ◘
- Unicode
- U+25D8
About this symbol
◘, the inverse bullet, is Alt+8 because of the IBM PC of 1981. Its built-in character set, code page 437, gave the invisible control codes 1 to 31 small pictures so they could be shown on screen, and number 8, backspace, became this white dot in a black square.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- INVERSE BULLET
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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