What 🄆 means
It preserves a number-comma form from Japanese digital broadcasting.
Japan’s Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) enacted STD-B24 in 1999 for digital-broadcast data coding and transmission. A Unicode working-group proposal in 2008 maps 🄆 to ARIB code 9237 and groups it with digit-comma forms, modeled on digit-plus-period marks. Unicode’s enclosed-number repertoire also preserves East Asian legacy forms; many small ordered sets were designed as text list bullets.
Don't confuse it with
1Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🄆 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🄆
- Search it as
- 5, · 5 comma · number comma · ARIB 9237 · Japanese broadcast character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🄆CSS
\1F106HTML
Write
🄆 in HTML; the browser renders 🄆.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🄆
HTML hex
🄆
CSS content
content: "\1F106";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%84%86
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.