What ⑬ means
It means number 13, used as a label. You'll meet ⑬ marking the thirteenth step in a manual or recipe, the thirteenth point on an annotated picture, or note 13 in a document. The circle sets the label apart from figures in the running text, so "⑬ 5 kg" is much harder to misread as "135 kg". It carries no standard hidden meaning when someone sends it.
It belongs to a series that runs from ① up to ㊿, and there is a separate black-disc version, ⓭.
Why is a circled 13 a character of its own?
Because Japanese and Korean computer character sets already had it. Japanese text has long used circled numbers, called maru-sūji, as numbered markers for steps, notes and answer choices, and the Korean standard character set carried ① to ⑮. Unicode took them in so text could pass between those older systems and Unicode without losing anything.
Neutral and practical: a numbered label.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- In Japan, ① to ⑳ were long "machine-dependent characters": a manufacturer's add-on that could show up garbled on other systems, so people avoided them in email. The JIS X 0213 standard added them in 2000, though some older email setups can still mangle them.
Questions people ask
2How high do circled numbers go?
Up to 50. ① to ⑳ came first, ㉑ to ㊿ were added later; there is no ready-made circled 51.
Why does ⑬ show as an empty box?
Your font lacks it. Try a font that includes it; Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts often do.
More like this
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⑫Circled Number Twelve
⑭Circled Number Fourteen
⑪Circled Number Eleven
⑮Circled Number Fifteen
⑿Parenthesized Number Twelve
⒀Parenthesized Number Thirteen
⒁Parenthesized Number Fourteen
⓬Negative Circled Number Twelve
⓭Negative Circled Number Thirteen
⓮Negative Circled Number Fourteen⒔Number Thirteen Full Stop𝋍Kaktovik Numeral Thirteen𖺍Medefaidrin Number Thirteen𖺎Medefaidrin Number Fourteen
0Digit Zero
1Digit One
2Digit Two
3Digit Three
4Digit FourHow to type or find ⑬
- Also called
- circled 13 · 13 in a circle · maru-sūji 13
- Search it as
- ⑬ · circled number 13 · number 13 symbol · enclosed number 13 · list marker 13
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⑬\246CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.