U+24C2 Circled Latin Capital Letter M

U+24C2 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2460 to U+24FF Enclosed Alphanumerics in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. Its lowercase variant is Circled Latin Small Letter M.

The glyph is a circle version of the glyph Latin Capital Letter M. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+24C2 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “circled M” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circle, M.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: Ⓜ️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.