Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Nine ➈
Symbol Meaning
Number nine from the Arabic writing system hasn't changed during all these years. It has reached us in the form close to the original. At first, nine used to be expressed with a gesture where you make a fist with a thumb leaned aside. In ancient documents, it looked like a circle with a “tail” slightly turned to the right. Later on, the “tail” changed its position and curved to the left.
We have been using such a nine for many centuries in a row, including in typography. One of the Unicode characters is Circled Sans-Serif Digit Nine enclosed in a circle. It is used as dingbat along with other icons of similar design: ➇ , ➆ , ➅ , ➄ , and so on.
The symbol “Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Nine” is included in the “Dingbat circled digits” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Dingbat Circled Sans-Serif Digit Nine |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Dingbat circled digits |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2788 |
| Simple case change | 2788 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 88 | 226 158 136 | 14851720 | 11100010 10011110 10001000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 88 | 39 136 | 10120 | 00100111 10001000 |
| UTF-16LE | 88 27 | 136 39 | 34855 | 10001000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 88 | 0 0 39 136 | 10120 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10001000 |
| UTF-32LE | 88 27 00 00 | 136 39 0 0 | 2284257280 | 10001000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |