Combining enclosing circle

The base character comes first; this mark follows it. In a Unicode-aware editor, insert U+20DD immediately after the character; 1 + ⃝ produces 1⃝.

In early Church Slavonic manuscripts, enclosing signs marked numeral letters as higher values. The ten-thousands sign multiplied the enclosed numeral’s value by 10,000. Unicode documentation unifies that historical use with this generic combining mark.

Why does my circled character look wrong?

Font support determines whether the circle sits correctly. As of 2026, Unicode says full rendering support for enclosing marks is not widely available, so the same sequence can look right in one font and misplaced or absent in another.

It encloses only the preceding grapheme cluster—the text unit that appears as one character, even if it uses several code points. A whole word needs markup or another higher-level layout method.