What ⓶ means
It marks item two in an enclosed numbering system.
The Unicode text standard treats enclosed numbers as bullets kept for compatibility with older East Asian print conventions.
A 1999 Japanese standards proposal records a dental use: double-circled digits marked tooth positions in charts, alongside broader print uses.
Formal and typographic; it reads as a list marker or specialist label.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2
More like this
10
Collections with ⓶
1
How to type or find ⓶
- Also called
- double circled 2 · double circle number 2
- Search it as
- circled 2 · tooth chart · numbered bullet
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⓶CSS
\24F6Word on Windows
Type
24F6, then press Alt+X; this route was documented in 2023.Mac Character Viewer
Open it with
Command-Control-Space, then search “double circled”; this route was documented in 2023.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⓶
HTML hex
⓶
CSS content
content: "\24F6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%93%B6
1
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.