U+2494 "⒔" Number Thirteen Full Stop Unicode Character
U+2494 "⒔" Number Thirteen Full Stop is a specialized typographic symbol used to represent the number thirteen followed by a period, primarily designed for compatibility with East Asian and other legacy text encoding systems where enumerated lists often require a dedicated glyph for each entry. It belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, which contains similar characters for numbers one through twenty, enabling straightforward rendering of numbered sequences like "⒔" in plain text without relying on automatic list formatting. While rarely needed in modern digital communication, it remains part of the Unicode Standard to ensure accurate round trip conversion from older character sets and to support certain specific print or data entry contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2494 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Number Thirteen Full Stop |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Number Thirteen Period |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "1" U+0031 Digit One "3" U+0033 Digit Three "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⒔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⒔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2494 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002494 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2494 |