U+248C "⒌" Digit Five Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⒌
U+248C "⒌" Digit Five Full Stop is a typographic symbol that represents the digit 5 followed by a closing parenthesis, visually rendered as "5." within a single glyph, and it belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block of the Unicode standard. This character is primarily used in contexts such as lists, outlines, or numbered sequences where a compact, stylized representation of a number and its associated punctuation is preferred, often for aesthetic or formatting consistency in documents. It encodes a specific combination that avoids the need to type a separate digit and a period, providing a precomposed solution for specialized writing systems or legacy character mappings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+248C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Digit Five Full Stop |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Digit Five Period |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⒌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⒌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x248C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000248C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u248c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Digital |
| Numeric Value | 5 |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "." U+002E Full Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "." U+002E Full Stop |
| 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 |