U+2106 "℆" Cada Una Unicode Character

U+2106 "℆" Cada Una is a typographic ligature used primarily in Spanish and certain other Romance languages to represent the abbreviation "cada una," meaning "each one" or "each woman" in Spanish. This character combines the letters "c" and "a" into a single glyph, streamlining the notation for lists, recipes, or measurements where per-unit feminine items are specified, such as in "℆ docena" for "each dozen." It belongs to the Latin script and is classified as a compatibility character, originally included in Unicode for roundtrip conversion with older encoding standards like ISO 6937 and some typewriter or typesetting systems. While rare in modern digital text, it persists in specialized contexts like historical documents or fixed-width fonts where preserving compact abbreviation conventions is valued.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2106
Version Added	1.1
Name	Cada Una
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 "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	℆
HTML Hex Encoding	℆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x84 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2106
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002106
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2106

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C "/" U+002F Solidus "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U
NFKC Simple Casefold	"c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C "/" U+002F Solidus "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U
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