U+2478 PARENTHESIZED DIGIT FIVE

The Unicode character U+2478, officially named PARENTHESIZED DIGIT FIVE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Enclosed Alphanum block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Number, 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.