U+2162 "Ⅲ" Roman Numeral Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⅲ
U+2162 "Ⅲ" Roman Numeral Three is a typographic glyph representing the numeric value three in the traditional Roman numeral system, where it is formed by the repetition of the letter "I" three times. This character is part of the Number Forms block of Unicode, designed to provide a single, precomposed character for "III" rather than requiring separate letters, which aids in consistent rendering in contexts like clock faces, outlines, or classical numbering. It should be distinguished from the use of three separate capital "I" letters, as the Roman numeral character may have specific typographic spacing and appearance to match other precomposed numerals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2162 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Roman Numeral Three |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I "I" U+0049 Latin Capital Letter I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⅲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⅲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2162 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002162 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2162 |