U+1F12B "🄫" Circled Italic Latin Capital Letter C Unicode Character

U+1F12B "🄫" Circled Italic Latin Capital Letter C is a specialized typographic symbol used primarily as part of a larger set of enclosed alphanumeric characters for compatibility with legacy encoding systems, such as those found in old telephone and computer standards. It represents a capital letter C written in an italic style, enclosed within a circle, and is most famously associated with the "Copyleft" symbol in licensing contexts, indicating that others are free to copy, modify, and distribute a work provided that any derived versions remain equally free. This character is distinct from the more common circled copyright symbol © and is encoded in the Unicode block "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement," making it available for digital text and metadata while preserving its historical and legal significance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F12B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Circled Italic Latin Capital Letter C
Block	Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Circle
Decomposition Mapping	"C" U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🄫
HTML Hex Encoding	🄫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDD2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F12B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udd2b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width	Ambiguous
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
NFKC Simple Casefold	"c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other