How to type Circle Symbol (Text) in Word on Keyboard

In today’s article, you’ll learn how to use some keyboard shortcuts plus other methods to type the Circle Symbol (text – ◯) in MS Word using either Windows or Mac.

Just before we begin, I’ll like to tell you that you can also use the button below to copy and paste the Circle sign into your work for free.

However, if you just want to type this symbol on your keyboard, the actionable steps below will show you everything you need to know.

Quick Guide for Typing Circle Symbol Text [◯]

To type the Circle Symbol on Mac, press Option + 25EF shortcut on your keyboard. For Windows users, simply press down one of the Alt keys and type 9 (on Windows) or 9711 (in Word) using the numeric keypad, then let go of the Alt key.

Note: These shortcuts can work only on MS Word.

The below table contains all the information you need to type this Symbol on the keyboard for both the Mac and the Windows PC.

Symbol Name	Circle
Symbol Text	◯
Alt Code	9 or 9711 (Word)
Windows Shortcut	Alt+9 or Alt+9711
Mac Shortcut	Option + 25EF
Word Shortcut	25EF, Alt+X

The quick guide above provides some useful shortcuts and alt codes on how to type the Circle symbol in Word on both Windows and Mac.

Below are some more different variations of the Circle Symbols with their respective alt code that can be used to type them in Word for both Windows and Mac.

Circle Symbol Text	Circle Symbol Name	Alt Code
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 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 this symbol into your work such as MS Word document.

How to type Circle Symbol [text] in Word

Microsoft Office provides several methods for typing Circle Symbols or inserting symbols that do not have dedicated keys on the keyboard.

In this section, I will make available for you five different methods you can use to type or insert this and any other symbol on your PC, like in MS Office (ie. Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) for both Mac and Windows users.

Without any further ado, let’s get started.

Using the Circle Symbol Alt Code (Windows Only)

The Circle Symbol alt code is 9711.

Even though this Symbol has no dedicated key on the keyboard, you can still type it on the keyboard with the Alt code method. To do this, press and hold the Alt key whilst pressing the Circle Alt code (i.e. 9711) 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). You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. If you are using a laptop without the 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.

This is how you may type this symbol in Word using the Alt Code method.

Using the Circle Symbol Shortcut (Mac and Windows)

For Mac users, the keyboard shortcut for the Circle Symbol is Option + 25EF. For Windows users, use the Alt Code Shortcut method by pressing down one of the [Alt] keys whilst typing the symbol’s alt code which is 9711. You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. Also, ensure that your Num Lock key is turned on.

Below is a breakdown of the Circle Symbol shortcut for Mac:

• First of all, place the insertion pointer where you need to type the symbol (◯).
• Now, press Option + 25EF simultaneously on your keyboard to insert the symbol.

Below is a breakdown of the Circle Symbol shortcut for Windows (In MS Word):

• Place the insertion pointer at the desired location.
• Press and hold down the Alt key
• While pressing down the Alt key, type 9711 using the numeric keypad to insert the symbol.

Below is a breakdown of the Circle Symbol shortcut for Windows (In MS Word Only):

• Click to place the insertion pointer where you want the Circle Symbol to be inserted.
• Type this code – 25EF.
• After typing the code and whilst the insertion pointer is still next to the last digit in the code, press Alt + X to convert the code to the symbol.

These are the shortcuts you may use to type the Circle sign in Word .

Copy and Paste Circle Symbol ◯ (text)

Another easy way to get the Circle sign on any PC is to use my favorite method: copy and paste.

All you have to do is to copy the symbol sign from somewhere like a web page, or the character map for windows users, and head over to where you need the symbol (say in Word ), then hit Ctrl+V to paste.

Below is the symbol for you to copy and paste into your Word document. Just select it and press Ctrl+C to copy, switch over to Microsoft Word, place your insertion pointer at the desired location, and press Ctrl+V to paste.

◯

Alternatively, just use the copy button at the beginning of this post.

For windows users, obey the following instructions to copy and paste the Circle Symbol using the character map dialog box.

• Click on the Start button and search for Character Map. The Character Map app will appear in the search results, click to open.

• The Character Map dialog will appear. Click to check the Advanced view check-box to expand the dialog box for more advanced options.

• On the advanced view, type Circle in the Search box and press the Enter key.
• You should now see the Circle (◯) Symbol on the character map dialog. If you can’t see it, then you should look through the library of symbols to spot it. When found, double click it to select. Alternatively, click on the Select button.

• After you select the symbol by double-clicking it, it should appear in the Character to copy: field, then click on the Copy button to copy the symbol.
• Switch to your Microsoft Word  document, place the insertion pointer at the desired location, and press Ctrl+V to paste.

This is how you may use the Character Map dialog to copy and paste any symbol on Windows PC.

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.

These are the steps you may use to insert this Symbol in Word.

Conclusion

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

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

Thank you very much for reading this blog.

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