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
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 |
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| 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
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT THREE | |
| INVERSE CIRCLED SANS-SERIF DIGIT THREE | |
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