Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Six ➏
Symbol Meaning
One of the ways to make a number more prominent is to place it on a contrasting background. That's what the creators of Unicode did — they implemented this very icon called “Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Six”. The white number six looks bright and impressive, while its design remains simple, and it will look appropriate in almost any text. Use it for writing down important dates and numbers, plus you can complement it with other similar icons: ➐, ➎ and so on.
From a geometric point of view, number 6 traditionally corresponds to a six-pointed star ✶. Numerologists and mystics believe that six is controlled by Venus, and it represents the sense of beauty, love, harmony, and emotions.
The symbol “Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Six” 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 Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Six |
| 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 | 278F |
| Simple case change | 278F |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 8F | 226 158 143 | 14851727 | 11100010 10011110 10001111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 8F | 39 143 | 10127 | 00100111 10001111 |
| UTF-16LE | 8F 27 | 143 39 | 36647 | 10001111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 8F | 0 0 39 143 | 10127 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10001111 |
| UTF-32LE | 8F 27 00 00 | 143 39 0 0 | 2401697792 | 10001111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |