What 🯲 means
It preserves a score-display form used in Atari ST applications. In 2017, a Unicode proposal treated the segmented look as a display variant of ordinary “2”. By 2019, another proposal listed it separately, citing Atari ST applications that used it apart from ASCII digits—the standard plain-text 0–9 set. Its value stayed two; the separate character preserves the display style in old text.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Can text software turn it into a regular 2?
Yes. If a program uses Unicode's NFKC compatibility cleanup, it converts the character to plain 2 and loses the segmented look.
How to type 🯲
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBF2, then Alt+X to get 🯲.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “segmented digit two”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbf2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯲CSS
\1FBF2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯲
HTML hex
🯲
CSS content
content: "\1FBF2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%B2
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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.