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Glyph for U+278E
Source: Noto Sans Symbols

U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five

U+278E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2700 to U+27BF Dingbats in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Number and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The codepoint represents the digit 5.

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+278E 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:

5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number.

Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 10126
UTF-8 E2 9E 8E
UTF-16 27 8E
UTF-32 00 00 27 8E
URL-Quoted %E2%9E%8E
HTML hex reference ➎
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ➎
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 37 CA 30
LATEX \ding{206}
Adobe Glyph List fivecircleinversesansserif

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT FIVE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) INVERSE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT FIVE
Block (blk) Dingbats
General Category (gc) Other Number
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt) digit
Numeric Value (nv) 5
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+278E Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Five
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U