U+217E "ⅾ" Small Roman Numeral Five Hundred Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⅾ
U+217E "ⅾ" Small Roman Numeral Five Hundred is a typographic form representing the Roman numeral for five hundred, which is traditionally written as "D" but encoded as a small or lowercase version for specific textual applications. This character is part of the Number Forms block in Unicode, designed to support consistent representation of Roman numerals in digital text, particularly in contexts where a distinction between uppercase and lowercase letter forms is needed or where the numeral appears in a run of small text. It allows for precise typographic control and compatibility with historical or stylistic documents that use the minuscule Roman numeral system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+217E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Roman Numeral Five Hundred |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x217E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000217E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u217e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 500 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅾ" U+216E Roman Numeral Five Hundred |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅾ" U+216E Roman Numeral Five Hundred |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅾ" U+216E Roman Numeral Five Hundred |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅾ" U+216E Roman Numeral Five Hundred |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| 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 |