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U+2462 · CIRCLED DIGIT THREE

Circled Digit Three

  • CodepointU+2462
  • NameCIRCLED DIGIT THREE
  • Decimal9314
  • 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+2462 (③) is CIRCLED DIGIT THREE, 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+0033 3 (compatibility decomposition <circle>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0033 3. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has the numeric value 3.

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 ③

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 91 A23 bytes
UTF-1624621 code unit
UTF-32000024624 bytes
HTML decimal&#9314;
HTML hex&#x2462;
CSS\2462in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2462
JSON\u2462
Python\u2462
Python\N{CIRCLED DIGIT THREE}by name
Java / C#\u2462
C / C++\u2462universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2462}
Go\u2462
Ruby\u2462
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9314)
URL-encoded%E2%91%A2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0033 3
NFKDU+0033 3
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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+2782➂Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three
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Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+2460①Circled Digit One U+2461②Circled Digit Two U+2463④Circled Digit Four U+2464⑤Circled Digit Five U+2465⑥Circled Digit Six U+2466⑦Circled Digit Seven U+2467⑧Circled Digit Eight U+2468⑨Circled Digit Nine