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Glyph for U+2116
Source: Noto Sans

U+2116 Numero Sign

U+2116 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2100 to U+214F Letterlike Symbols 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.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+004E Latin Capital Letter N, Glyph for U+006F Latin Small Letter O. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2116 behaves as Prefix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The numero sign or numero symbol, , (also represented as , 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
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name NUMERO SIGN
Unicode 1 Name NUMERO
Block Letterlike Symbols
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+004E Latin Capital Letter N Glyph for U+006F Latin Small Letter O
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Case Folding Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+006E Latin Small Letter N Glyph for U+006F Latin Small Letter O
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+006E Latin Small Letter N Glyph for U+006F Latin Small Letter O
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+006E Latin Small Letter N Glyph for U+006F Latin Small Letter O
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Prefix Numeric
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2116 Numero Sign
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U