U+216D "Ⅽ" Roman Numeral One Hundred Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⅽ
U+216D "Ⅽ" Roman Numeral One Hundred is a precomposed glyph representing the Roman numeral for the value 100, distinct from the standard uppercase letter C in the Latin alphabet. It belongs to the Number Forms block of Unicode, which was designed to include historic and typographic characters for easier text rendering in specialized contexts, such as clock faces, outlines, or classic inscriptions. This character ensures that the Roman numeral is displayed consistently across different fonts and digital platforms, avoiding potential confusion with the letter C when used in mathematical or historical notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+216D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "C" U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⅽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⅽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x216D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000216D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u216d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 100 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Other Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⅽ" U+217D Small Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⅽ" U+217D Small Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⅽ" U+217D Small Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Case Folding | "ⅽ" U+217D Small Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| 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 | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |