U+24B9 "Ⓓ" Circled Latin Capital Letter D Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⓓ
U+24B9 "Ⓓ" Circled Latin Capital Letter D is a typographic symbol used primarily for list markers, annotations, or as a decorative capital letter in various forms of written communication. It belongs to the "Enclosed Alphanumerics" block, which includes other similarly styled circled letters and numbers often employed in bulleted lists, educational materials, or informal note-taking to indicate a sequential or categorical point. This character does not represent a distinct semantic value beyond its visual form but serves as a functional graphic element, with its appearance derived from the standard Latin capital D enclosed within a circle to draw attention or organize information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Latin Capital Letter D |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "D" U+0044 Latin Capital Letter D |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⓓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⓓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24b9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Other Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ⓓ" U+24D3 Circled Latin Small Letter D |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⓓ" U+24D3 Circled Latin Small Letter D |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⓓ" U+24D3 Circled Latin Small Letter D |
| Case Folding | "ⓓ" U+24D3 Circled Latin Small Letter D |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "d" U+0064 Latin Small Letter D |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Other Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |