What ⑩ means
It labels the tenth item, step or point.
Circled numbers work like tidy labels: steps in instructions, points marked on a map, photo or chart, or a reference to a note. Because the circle sets the number apart from the surrounding text, ⑩ usually reads as a label rather than a quantity, though context decides. In Japanese, Chinese and Korean writing they are a familiar numbering style; in Western texts they turn up in diagrams, puzzles and hand-styled notes.
It is plain text, not a picture: your font draws the ring, so ⑩ looks slightly different from device to device, and a font without it shows an empty box. In a word processor it is a fixed character, not part of automatic list numbering.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
4



Combination ideas
4Worth knowing
- In older Japanese computing, circled numbers were “machine-dependent characters”: each maker encoded them its own way, so they could turn into gibberish when an email or file moved to another system. Unicode has since standardized them.
Questions people ask
2Is ⑩ an emoji?
No. It is a text character, so it takes your font's colour and style rather than a coloured emoji picture.
Does a circled number mean a score or rating?
Usually not. It is mostly a label for a position or step, read as “number 10” in a sequence, but context decides and it can simply stand for 10.
Collections with ⑩
4How to type or find ⑩
- Search it as
- circled 10 · 10 in a circle · number 10 symbol · circled numbers
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⑩\2469Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.




