U+24E2 "ⓢ" Circled Latin Small Letter S Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⓢ
U+24E2 "ⓢ" Circled Latin Small Letter S is a typographic symbol that depicts a lowercase "s" enclosed within a circle, and it belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, which was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. This character is primarily used in contexts such as diagrams, maps, signage, or instructional materials to denote a point of interest, a specific location, or a function labeled with the letter "s." It can also serve stylistic or decorative purposes when representing abbreviations or placeholders in text, and its circled appearance helps to visually emphasize or distinguish it from standard lowercase letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Latin Small Letter S |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⓢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⓢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x93 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24e2 |
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 |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ⓢ" U+24C8 Circled Latin Capital Letter S |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⓢ" U+24C8 Circled Latin Capital Letter S |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⓢ" U+24C8 Circled Latin Capital Letter S |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⓢ" U+24C8 Circled Latin Capital Letter S |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S |
| 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 | Lower |