Circle Symbol Text	Circle Symbol Name	Alt Code
	No Entry Sign	Alt + 128683
	Face Without Mouth	Alt + 128566
	Large Blue Circle	Alt + 128309
	Large Red Circle	Alt + 128308
	Radio Button	Alt + 128280
	Direct Hit	Alt + 127919
	Full Moon Symbol	Alt + 127765
	First Quarter Moon Symbol	Alt + 127763
	New Moon Symbol	Alt + 127761
〇	Ideographic Number Zero	Alt + 12295
	Heavy Large Circle	Alt + 11093
⨸	Circled Division Sign	Alt + 10808
⨷	Cross Sign In Double Circle	Alt + 10807
⧳	Error-Barred Black Circle	Alt + 10739
⧲	Error-Barred White Circle	Alt + 10738
⧭	Black Circle With Down Arrow	Alt + 10733
⧬	White Circle With Down Arrow	Alt + 10732
⧃	Circle With Two Horizontal Strokes To The Right	Alt + 10691
⧂	Circle With Small Circle To The Right	Alt + 10690
⧁	Circled Greater-Than	Alt + 10689
⧀	Circled Less-Than	Alt + 10688
⦿	Circled Bullet	Alt + 10687
⦾	Circled White Bullet	Alt + 10686
⦽	Up Arrow Through Circle	Alt + 10685
⦼	Circled Anticlockwise-Rotated Division Sign	Alt + 10684
⦻	Circle With Superimposed X	Alt + 10683
⦺	Circle Divided By Horizontal Bar And Top Half Divided By Vertical Bar	Alt + 10682
⦹	Circled Perpendicular	Alt + 10681
⦸	Circled Reverse Solidus	Alt + 10680
⦷	Circled Parallel	Alt + 10679
⦶	Circled Vertical Bar	Alt + 10678
⦵	Circle With Horizontal Bar	Alt + 10677
❍	Shadowed White Circle	Alt + 10061
✆	Telephone In Circle	Alt + 9990
	No Entry	Alt + 9940
	Baseball	Alt + 9918
⚯	Unmarried Partnership Symbol	Alt + 9903
⚮	Divorce Symbol	Alt + 9902
⚭	Marriage Symbol	Alt + 9901
⚬	Medium Small White Circle	Alt + 9900
	Medium Black Circle	Alt + 9899
	Medium White Circle	Alt + 9898
⚉	Black Circle With Two White Dots	Alt + 9865
⚈	Black Circle With White Dot Right	Alt + 9864
⚇	White Circle With Two Dots	Alt + 9863
⚆	White Circle With Dot Right	Alt + 9862
	Permanent Paper Sign	Alt + 9854
♽	Partially-Recycled Paper Symbol	Alt + 9853
♼	Recycled Paper Symbol	Alt + 9852
	Yin Yang	Alt + 9775
⃠	Combining Enclosing Circle Backslash	Alt + 8416
⇴	Right Arrow With Small Circle	Alt + 8692
⊕	Circled Plus	Alt + 8853
⊖	Circled Minus	Alt + 8854
⊗	Circled Times	Alt + 8855
⊘	Circled Division Slash	Alt + 8856
⊙	Circled Dot Operator	Alt + 8857
⊚	Circled Ring Operator	Alt + 8858
⊛	Circled Asterisk Operator	Alt + 8859
⊜	Circled Equals	Alt + 8860
⊝	Circled Dash	Alt + 8861
⍟	Apl Functional Symbol Circle Star	Alt + 9055
⎉	Circled Horizontal Bar With Notch	Alt + 9097
⎊	Circled Triangle Down	Alt + 9098
⎋	Broken Circle With Northwest Arrow	Alt + 9099
⏀	Dentistry Symbol Light Vertical With Circle	Alt + 9152
⏁	Dentistry Symbol Light Down And Horizontal With Circle	Alt + 9153
⏂	Dentistry Symbol Light Up And Horizontal With Circle	Alt + 9154
⏣	Benzene Ring With Circle	Alt + 9187
	Black Circle For Record	Alt + 9210
○	White Circle	Alt + 9675
◌	Dotted Circle	Alt + 9676
◍	Circle With Vertical Fill	Alt + 9677
●	Black Circle	Alt + 9679
◐	Circle With Left Half Black	Alt + 9680
◑	Circle With Right Half Black	Alt + 9681
◒	Circle With Lower Half Black	Alt + 9682
◓	Circle With Upper Half Black	Alt + 9683
◔	Circle With Upper Right Quadrant Black	Alt + 9684
◕	Circle With All But Upper Left Quadrant Black	Alt + 9685
◖	Left Half Black Circle	Alt + 9686
◗	Right Half Black Circle	Alt + 9687
◙	Inverse White Circle	Alt + 9689
◚	Upper Half Inverse White Circle	Alt + 9690
◛	Lower Half Inverse White Circle	Alt + 9691
◠	Upper Half Circle	Alt + 9696
◡	Lower Half Circle	Alt + 9697
◯	Large Circle	Alt + 9711
◴	White Circle With Upper Left Quadrant	Alt + 9716
◵	White Circle With Lower Left Quadrant	Alt + 9717
◶	White Circle With Lower Right Quadrant	Alt + 9718
◷	White Circle With Upper Right Quadrant	Alt + 9719
✪	Circled White Star	Alt + 10026
❂	Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star	Alt + 10050
➲	Circled Heavy White Rightwards Arrow	Alt + 10162
⟲	Anticlockwise Gapped Circle Arrow	Alt + 10226
⟳	Clockwise Gapped Circle Arrow	Alt + 10227
⟴	Right Arrow With Circled Plus	Alt + 10228
⥀	Anticlockwise Closed Circle Arrow	Alt + 10560
⥁	Clockwise Closed Circle Arrow	Alt + 10561
⥈	Left Right Arrow Through Small Circle	Alt + 10568
⥉	Upwards Two-Headed Arrow From Small Circle	Alt + 10569
⦲	Empty Set With Small Circle Above	Alt + 10674
⧇	Squared Small Circle	Alt + 10695
⨀	N-Ary Circled Dot Operator	Alt + 10752
⨁	N-Ary Circled Plus Operator	Alt + 10753
⨂	N-Ary Circled Times Operator	Alt + 10754
⨢	Plus Sign With Small Circle Above	Alt + 10786
⨭	Plus Sign In Left Half Circle	Alt + 10797
⨮	Plus Sign In Right Half Circle	Alt + 10798
⨴	Multiplication Sign In Left Half Circle	Alt + 10804
⨵	Multiplication Sign In Right Half Circle	Alt + 10805
⨶	Circled Multiplication Sign With Circumflex Accent	Alt + 10806
⬤	Black Large Circle	Alt + 11044
⬰	Left Arrow With Small Circle	Alt + 11056
⬲	Left Arrow With Circled Plus	Alt + 11058
〶	Circled Postal Mark	Alt + 12342
￮	Halfwidth White Circle	Alt + 65518

To type any of the above circle symbols/emojis in your Word document, press down one of the Alt keys on your keyboard and type the alt numbers using the numeric keypad. For example, press Alt + 9711 to type the big circle symbol text into your Word document.

For more details, below are some other methods you can also use to insert circle symbols into your MS Word document.

How to Insert Circle Symbols?

Circle symbol shortcuts for Windows

• Hex Code: Enter the hexadecimal code provided in the second column of the below table and then press alt and x keys to convert the code into a circle symbol. For example, 2295 Alt X will insert a circled plus symbol as ⊕. This method will only on Word documents.
• Decimal Code (Alt Code): Hold one of the alt keys and then type the numbers provided in the first column of the below table using a number pad. For example, Alt 8885 will produce the crossed circle symbol as ⊗. This method will work on all documents like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Character Map: In addition to keyboard shortcuts, you can use the character map app to insert circle symbols in Windows. Open character map using Windows search and use “Unicode subrange” group to filter relevant symbols. Circles are part of many groups like mathematical operators, so you have to search under different groups to find the symbols.

• Circle Emoji: Some of the circle symbols are part of unicode emoji. You can insert these circle emoji using the emoji panel in Windows 10. Press “Win Logo + Dot” keys to open the emoji panel. You can type “circle” to filter relevant symbols and insert into your documents.

Using the circle symbol Alt code for Windows

The circle symbol alt code is 9711 OR Alt + 9.

Even though the circle symbol has no dedicated key on the keyboard, you can still type it on the keyboard with the Alt code method. To type the circle symbol, press and hold the Alt key whilst pressing the circle Alt code (i.e. 7) using the numeric keypad.

This method works on Windows only. And your keyboard must also have a numeric keypad.

Below is a break-down of the steps you can take to type the circle sign on your Windows PC:

• Place your insertion pointer where you need the circle symbol text.
• Press and hold one of the Alt keys on your keyboard.
• Whilst holding on to the Alt key, press the circle symbol’s alt code (9711 OR 9). You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. If you are using a laptop without a numeric keypad, this method may not work for you. On some laptops, there’s a hidden numeric keypad which you can enable by pressing Fn+NmLk on the keyboard.
• Release the Alt key after typing the Alt code to insert the symbol into your document.

Circle symbol shortcuts for Mac

On Mac, you can use the hex codes with the unicode hex input method.

• First, change your keyboard layout to unicode hex input from the top Apple menu bar.
• Hold one of the alt or option keys.
• Type the code and release the alt key.

For example, use Alt2A38to type circled division symbol like ⨸. You can use all 4 digits hex code with this method. If it is more than 4 digits, press “Command + Control + Space” and open the character viewer app. Type “circle” in the search box and get the relevant circle symbols.

Using insert symbol dialog box (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

The insert symbol dialog box is a library of symbols from where you can insert any symbol into your Word document with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Obey the following steps to insert this symbol (◯) in Word using the insert symbol dialog box.

• Open your Word document.
• Click to place the insertion pointer where you wish to insert the symbol.
• Go to the Insert tab.

• In the symbols category, click on the Symbol drop-down and select the “More Symbols” button.

The Symbol dialog box will appear.

• To easily locate the Circle symbol, select “Segoe UI Symbol” font type in the Font list at the upper left section of the window. Then type 25EF in the character code field at the bottom area of the window. After typing this character code, the circle symbol will appear selected.
• Now click on the Insert button to insert the symbol into your document.

• Close the dialog.

The symbol will then be inserted exactly where you placed the insertion pointer.

By following these steps you can insert a circle symbol in Word.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are several different methods you can use to type the circle symbol in Microsoft Word.

Using the shortcuts for both Windows and Mac makes the fastest option for this task. Shortcuts are always fast.

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