U+217D "ⅽ" Small Roman Numeral One Hundred Unicode Character
U+217D "ⅽ" Small Roman Numeral One Hundred is a typographic glyph designed for use in contexts where the lowercase Roman numeral for 100 is needed, typically representing the number 100 in sequences like page numbers, outlines, or clock faces, as distinct from its uppercase counterpart "C". It is part of the Number Forms block in Unicode, which provides a set of precomposed Roman numeral characters for compatibility with legacy text and systems, and it corresponds visually to a small letter 'c' with a specific style intended to match other small Roman numerals in a given font. This character helps ensure consistent representation and avoids the ambiguity or formatting issues that might arise from using a plain lowercase 'c' to denote the numeral.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+217D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small 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+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x217D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000217D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u217d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 100 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅽ" U+216D Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅽ" U+216D Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅽ" U+216D Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅽ" U+216D Roman Numeral One Hundred |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | 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 | Lower |