What ㊁ means
It is the circled form of 二. 二 is the East Asian character for two; ㊁ can label the second item in a list or sequence.
Why put 二 in a circle?
It was meant to mark list items. Unicode traces enclosed symbols to older East Asian character sets and says the ordered Han numerals one through ten were originally intended as numbered bullets.
Neutral and typographic: it labels an item in a sequence.
Don't confuse it with
2
Questions people ask
1Why does ㊁ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
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Collections with ㊁
2
How to type or find ㊁
- Also called
- 丸二
- Search it as
- circled 2 · circled number 2 · kanji 2
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㊁CSS
\3281Japanese input
Enter 二 and inspect the conversion candidates; enclosed forms vary by input method.
Font support
If it appears as a box or blank, the font or app may lack ㊁; try another font or use plain 2 or 二 in important text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㊁
HTML hex
㊁
CSS content
content: "\3281";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%8A%81
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.