U+24BF "Ⓙ" Circled Latin Capital Letter J Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
Ⓙ
U+24BF "Ⓙ" Circled Latin Capital Letter J is part of the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, serving as a decorative or symbolic variant of the standard uppercase J enclosed within a circular border. It was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993 and is often used for stylistic purposes in lists, diagrams, or notations where a clear visual distinction or ordered labeling is desired, such as in academic or technical contexts. This character can also appear in recreational or linguistic use to represent a circled letter J in informal settings, though it does not carry specific semantic meaning beyond its graphical form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24BF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Latin Capital Letter J |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "J" U+004A Latin Capital Letter J |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⓙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⓙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24bf |
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+24D9 Circled Latin Small Letter J |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⓙ" U+24D9 Circled Latin Small Letter J |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⓙ" U+24D9 Circled Latin Small Letter J |
| Case Folding | "ⓙ" U+24D9 Circled Latin Small Letter J |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "j" U+006A Latin Small Letter J |
| 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 |