U+2105 "℅" Care Of Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
℅
U+2105 "℅" Care Of is a typographic symbol used in postal addressing to indicate that a piece of mail should be delivered to a person or entity through the intermediary of another, as in "John Smith ℅ Jane Doe." It is a single character that combines the Latin letter 'c' and 'o' into a compact ligature, streamlining handwritten or typed correspondence. The symbol has its origins in traditional letter writing, where it serves as a shorthand for "care of," and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and fonts, preserving this utility in modern electronic communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2105 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Care Of |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C "/" U+002F Solidus "o" U+006F Latin Small Letter O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2105 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002105 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2105 |