U+2116 NUMERO SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
8470
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2116, officially named NUMERO SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Letterlike Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as NUMERO.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8470 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 84 96 Copied!
UTF-16 21 16 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 16 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%84%96 Copied!
HTML hex reference № Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2116' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2116 Copied!
C and C++ \u2116 Copied!
C# \u2116 Copied!
CSS \002116 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8470) Copied!
Go \u2116 Copied!
JavaScript \u2116 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2116} Copied!
JSON \u2116 Copied!
Java \u2116 Copied!
Lua \u{2116} Copied!
Matlab char(8470) Copied!
Perl \x{2116} Copied!
PHP \u{2116} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2116' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2116} Copied!
Python \u2116 Copied!
Ruby \u{2116} Copied!
Rust \u{2116} Copied!