U+278C Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three
U+278C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Dingbats in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Number and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The codepoint represents the digit 3.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+278C 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 Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 10124 |
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 8C |
| UTF-16 | 27 8C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 27 8C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%9E%8C |
| HTML hex reference | ➌ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ➌ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 C9 38 |
| LATEX | \ding{204} |
| Adobe Glyph List | threecircleinversesansserif |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT THREE | |
| INVERSE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT THREE | |
| Dingbats | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| ✘ | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| ✘ | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Yes | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| digit | |
| 3 | |
| Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Three | |
| U |