What ⒀ means
It marks item 13 in a numbered list. Unicode’s compatibility mapping—a link to a plain-text equivalent—connects ⒀ to (13), which uses four characters.
Enclosed numbers grew from typographic and typewriter-style ways of marking list items. Unicode, the standard that assigns codes to text characters, retains these forms for compatibility with older East Asian character sets.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2(13) ⒀ is one character; (13) is four ordinary characters for the same list number.
Related characters
3
Circled Number Thirteen
⑬ encloses the same number in a circle; ⒀ uses parentheses. The value matches, but the enclosure style differs.
Parenthesized Number Twelve
The previous marker in the parenthesized-number series, for item twelve.
Parenthesized Number Fourteen
The next marker in the parenthesized-number series, for item fourteen.
Combination ideas
3Items twelve to fourteen of a parenthesized list
Item thirteen checked off
Thirteen and a black cat: double bad luck, jokingly
Questions people ask
1Why does ⒀ 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.
More like this
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How to type or find ⒀
- Search it as
- ⒀ · (13) · 13 in parentheses · parenthesized 13 · numbered list symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⒀CSS
\2480Word for Windows
As of 2026, in Microsoft Word for Windows, enter 2480 and press AltX. If another code comes immediately before it, select 2480 first.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⒀
HTML hex
⒀
CSS content
content: "\2480";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%92%80
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.