U+2468 "⑨" Circled Digit Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑨
U+2468 "⑨" Circled Digit Nine is a typographic symbol representing the number nine enclosed within a circle, commonly used in ordered lists, annotations, or as part of decorative numbering systems. It belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block in Unicode, which includes circled numbers from zero to twenty and other enclosed characters. This character is often employed in East Asian text for clarity or visual emphasis, and it is also recognized in some popular culture contexts, such as referencing the fictional character Cirno from the Touhou Project series, where the number nine is humorously associated with a "baka" (foolish) meme due to a pun in Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2468 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Digit Nine |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⑨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⑨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x91 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2468 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002468 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2468 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Digital |
| Numeric Value | 9 |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "9" U+0039 Digit Nine |
| 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 |