Numbers Symbols

Numeric forms beyond the ten digits on your keyboard: circled, parenthesised and full-stop numbers, double-struck digits, Roman numerals and other numbering systems used in outlines and lists.

This group holds 65 characters. They are scattered from U+2160 to U+2793, 1,588 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Number Forms (35), Dingbats (30) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of them, 35 of the 65, come from Number Forms: fractions and Roman numerals as single characters. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 2 of them. The rest come from Dingbats.

None of these is listed here with a Windows Alt code, so copying is the route in this drawer.

All 65 carry a numeric value, so software that asks what number a character is gets an answer rather than an error. 32 have a compatibility decomposition, which means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer and a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. 12 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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