What ⓽ means
It marks nine inside two rings. Use it as a compact item label when that heavier frame suits a list or heading.
A 1999 proposal from Japan's Standards Association aimed to keep Japanese products compatible with the forthcoming character standard JIS X 0213. It reports a dental use for double-circled digits one through eight as tooth-position labels and includes the series through ten for broader enclosed-number uses.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⓽ 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 ⓽
- Search it as
- double circled 9 · double circled nine · type ⓽ in Word · 9 with two rings
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⓽CSS
\24FDMicrosoft Word
Type the Unicode code
24FD in a Word document and press AltX; Word changes it into ⓽.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⓽
HTML hex
⓽
CSS content
content: "\24FD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%93%BD
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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.