U+2116 Numero Sign
U+2116 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Letterlike Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Latin Capital Letter N, Latin Small Letter O. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2116 prohibits a line break after it, if it is followed by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, the written long-form of the address "Number 22 Acacia Avenue" is shortened to "№ 22 Acacia Ave", yet both forms are spoken long.
Typographically, the numero sign combines as a single ligature the uppercase Latin letter ⟨N⟩ with a usually superscript lowercase letter ⟨o⟩, sometimes underlined, resembling the masculine ordinal indicator ⟨º⟩. The ligature has a code point in Unicode as a precomposed character, U+2116 № NUMERO SIGN.
The Oxford English Dictionary derives the numero sign from Latin numero, the ablative form of numerus ("number", with the ablative denotations of "by the number, with the number"). In Romance languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g. Italian numero, French numéro, and Portuguese and Spanish número.
This article describes other typographical abbreviations for "number" in different languages, in addition to the numero sign proper.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8470 |
| UTF-8 | E2 84 96 |
| UTF-16 | 21 16 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 16 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%84%96 |
| HTML hex reference | № |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â„– |
| HTML named entity | № |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 E0 |
| Encoding: IBM866 (hex bytes) | FC |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-5 (hex bytes) | F0 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | AD E2 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | 113 BA |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | B9 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | DC |
| LATEX | \cyrchar\textnumero |
| Adobe Glyph List | afii61352 |
| Adobe Glyph List | numero |
| digraph | N0 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| NUMERO SIGN | |
| NUMERO | |
| Letterlike Symbols | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Latin Capital Letter N Latin Small Letter O | |
| ✘ | |
| Numero Sign | |
| Numero Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Numero Sign | |
| Numero Sign | |
| Numero Sign | |
| Numero Sign | |
| Numero Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter N Latin Small Letter O | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter N Latin Small Letter O | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter N Latin Small Letter O | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Numero Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Prefix Numeric | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Numero Sign | |
| U |