U+24C6 "Ⓠ" Circled Latin Capital Letter Q Unicode Character
U+24C6 "Ⓠ" Circled Latin Capital Letter Q is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, designed to represent the letter Q within a circular enclosure for use in lists, diagrams, or decorative text. It is often employed in educational materials, signage, or interface designs where a visually distinct, enclosed letter is needed, such as for labeling options, steps, or categories. The character is encoded with the hexadecimal code point 24C6 and is displayed as a bold or black capital Q surrounded by a circle, depending on the font and rendering context. While historically used in standards like ISO 2047 for indicating control characters, its modern usage is largely practical for organizing information in a clear, compact format.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24C6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Latin Capital Letter Q |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Q" U+0051 Latin Capital Letter Q |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ⓠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ⓠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x93 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24c6 |
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+24E0 Circled Latin Small Letter Q |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ⓠ" U+24E0 Circled Latin Small Letter Q |
| Simple Case Folding | "ⓠ" U+24E0 Circled Latin Small Letter Q |
| Case Folding | "ⓠ" U+24E0 Circled Latin Small Letter Q |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "q" U+0071 Latin Small Letter Q |
| 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 |