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℡
U+2121 · TELEPHONE SIGN

Telephone Sign

  • CodepointU+2121
  • NameTELEPHONE SIGN
  • Decimal8481
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2121 (℡) is TELEPHONE SIGN, a symbol in the Letterlike Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0054 T + U+0045 E + U+004C L (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0054 T + U+0045 E + U+004C L. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ℡

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 A13 bytes
UTF-1621211 code unit
UTF-32000021214 bytes
HTML decimal&#8481;
HTML hex&#x2121;
CSS\2121in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2121
JSON\u2121
Python\u2121
Python\N{TELEPHONE SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u2121
C / C++\u2121universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2121}
Go\u2121
Ruby\u2121
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8481)
URL-encoded%E2%84%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0054 T + U+0045 E + U+004C L
NFKDU+0054 T + U+0045 E + U+004C L
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+211BℛScript Capital R U+211CℜBlack-Letter Capital R U+211DℝDouble-Struck Capital R U+211E℞Prescription Take U+211F℟Response U+2120℠Service Mark U+2122™Trade Mark Sign U+2123℣Versicle U+2124ℤDouble-Struck Capital Z U+2125℥Ounce Sign U+2126ΩOhm Sign U+2127℧Inverted Ohm Sign