U+2493 NUMBER TWELVE FULL STOP

U+2493 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Enclosed Alphanumerics in the Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Number and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The codepoint has the Numeric value 12.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs . It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Number and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+2493 behaves as Ambiguous 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:

12 (twelve /ˈtwɛlv/) is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13.

The word "twelve" is the largest number with a single-morpheme name in English. Etymology suggests that "twelve" (similar to "eleven") arises from the Germanic compound twalif "two-leftover", so a literal translation would yield "two remaining [after having ten taken]". This compound meaning may have been transparent to speakers of Old English, but the modern form "twelve" is quite opaque. Only the remaining tw- hints that twelve and two are related.

A group of twelve things is called a duodecad. The ordinal adjective is duodecimal, twelfth. The adjective referring to a group consisting of twelve things is duodecuple.

The number twelve is often used as a sales unit in trade, and is often referred to as a dozen. Twelve dozen are known as a gross. (Note that there are thirteen items in a baker's dozen.)

As shown below, the number twelve is frequently cited in the Abrahamic religions and is also central to the Western calendar and units of time.