U+29BC "⦼" Circled Anticlockwise-Rotated Division Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⦼
U+29BC "⦼" Circled Anticlockwise-Rotated Division Sign is a mathematical symbol that combines a standard division sign (an obelus) rotated ninety degrees counterclockwise within a circle, typically used in advanced or specialized notation to denote a specific type of operation or relation, such as a reversed or inverted division process. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block and was added to the Unicode standard to support precise typographic representation in technical documents, allowing mathematicians and logicians to convey alternative arithmetic or geometric concepts without ambiguity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+29BC |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Circled Anticlockwise-Rotated Division Sign |
| Block | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⦼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⦼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xA6 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x29BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000029BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u29bc |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |