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U+2461 · CIRCLED DIGIT TWO

Circled Digit Two

  • CodepointU+2461
  • NameCIRCLED DIGIT TWO
  • Decimal9313
  • BlockEnclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryNo — Other Number
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2461 (②) is CIRCLED DIGIT TWO, a numeric character in the Enclosed Alphanumerics 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 an encircled form of U+0032 2 (compatibility decomposition <circle>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0032 2. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has the numeric value 2.

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 ②

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 91 A13 bytes
UTF-1624611 code unit
UTF-32000024614 bytes
HTML decimal&#9313;
HTML hex&#x2461;
CSS\2461in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2461
JSON\u2461
Python\u2461
Python\N{CIRCLED DIGIT TWO}by name
Java / C#\u2461
C / C++\u2461universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2461}
Go\u2461
Ruby\u2461
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9313)
URL-encoded%E2%91%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0032 2
NFKDU+0032 2
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2781➁Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two
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Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+2460①Circled Digit One U+2462③Circled Digit Three U+2463④Circled Digit Four U+2464⑤Circled Digit Five U+2465⑥Circled Digit Six U+2466⑦Circled Digit Seven U+2467⑧Circled Digit Eight