Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Four ➃

U+2783
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Symbol Meaning

The “four” numeral took a long way to develop its own look. The Arabic system for a long time depicted it absolutely differently from the modern digit. It rather reminded of the Latin letter W turned vertically. It is considered that mathematicians were the ones who decided to transform this symbol. They wanted it to have four angles, but the rule “4 corners = number 4” didn't really stick, so the symbol got a small horizontal “tail”.

This is the picture of four that we see on Unicode. The Circled Sans-Serif Digit Four symbol reflects it perfectly. This symbol tends to be applied in numbered lists, paragraphs, chapters, and other types of decorations. You may come across it in social media posts, nicknames, published newspapers, magazines, and books on any topic.

If you're searching for an icon that would draw even more attnetion, use digit 4 encircled in black – .

The symbol “Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Four” is included in the “Dingbat circled digits” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Unicode Name Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Four
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Dingbat circled digits
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Dingbats
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2783
Simple case change 2783
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9E 83 226 158 131 14851715 11100010 10011110 10000011
UTF-16BE 27 83 39 131 10115 00100111 10000011
UTF-16LE 83 27 131 39 33575 10000011 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 83 0 0 39 131 10115 00000000 00000000 00100111 10000011
UTF-32LE 83 27 00 00 131 39 0 0 2200371200 10000011 00100111 00000000 00000000

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