U+2781 "➁" Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2781 "➁" Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two is a typographic symbol belonging to the Dingbats block, specifically designed as a sans-serif numeral two enclosed within a circular border. It is part of a numbered sequence from one to ten, often employed in decorative lists, menus, or instructional materials where a clean, rounded bullet-like marker is preferred over standard ordinals. This character offers a visually distinct and modern alternative for enumeration, commonly used in graphic design and digital interfaces to create a polished, non-typographic aesthetic for step-by-step guides or categorized information.

General Properties

Code Point U+2781
Version Added 1.1
Name Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two
Unicode 1.0 Name Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two
Block Dingbats
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ➁
HTML Hex Encoding ➁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x9E 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2781
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002781
C/C++/Java Escape \u2781

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Digital
Numeric Value 2
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other