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Enclosed Alphanumerics

{{Short description|Unicode block of typographical symbols}}

{{Redirect|Ⓐ|the symbol for anarchy|Anarchist symbolism#Circle-A}}

{{Redirect|Ⓓ|the political party with that symbol|Democratic Party (United States)}}

{{Redirect|Ⓟ|phonorecording copyright symbol|sound recording copyright symbol}}

{{redirect|Ⓡ|the political party with that symbol|Republican Party (United States)|the trademark symbol ®|registered trademark symbol}}

{{Redirect|Ⓤ|the kosher food label|Orthodox Union}}

{{redirect|Ⓥ|the vegan symbol|Vegetarian and vegan symbolism|other uses|V (disambiguation){{!}}V}}

{{redirect2|②|⑩|the Steinhaus-Moser number ② (mega) or ⑩ (megiston)|Steinhaus–Moser notation}}

{{redirect|⑨|the Touhou Project character|List of Touhou Project characters#Cirno{{!}}List of Touhou Project characters § Cirno}}

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|rangestart = 2460

|rangeend = 24FF

|script1 = Common

|1_0_0 = 139

|3_2 = 20

|4_0 = 1

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Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in a full stop.

It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane, a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks. There is also a block with more of these characters in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane named Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (U+1F100–U+1F1FF), as of Unicode 6.0.

Purpose

Many of these characters were originally intended for use as bullets for lists.The Unicode Standard, 6.0.1 The parenthesized forms are historically based on typewriter approximations of the circled versions. Although these roles have been supplanted by styles and other markup in "rich text" contexts, the characters are included in the Unicode standard "for interoperability with the legacy East Asian character sets and for the occasional text context where such symbols otherwise occur." The Unicode Standard considers these characters to be distinct from characters which are similar in form but specialized in purpose, such as the circled C, P or R characters which are defined as copyright and trademark symbols or the circled a used for an at sign.

A circled s (Ⓢ) was used in documents circa 1900 printed by German missionaries, especially the Basel Mission, in the Malayalam language to denote a ditto mark.{{cite book|author1=Joseph Muliyil|author2=M Krishnan|title=The New Malayalam Reader|date=1904|publisher=Basel Mission Book and Tract Repository|location=Mangalore|page=vii|language=ml|chapter=Contents}}

Block

{{Unicode chart Enclosed Alphanumerics}}

Emoji

The Enclosed Alphanumerics block contains one emoji:

U+24C2, the enclosed M used as a symbol for mask works.{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/|title=UTR #51: Unicode Emoji|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-09-05}}{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt|title=UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-02-01}}

It defaults to a text presentation and has two standardized variants defined to specify text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) or emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16).{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt|title=UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences | publisher=The Unicode Consortium}}

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|+style="font-size:small" | Emoji variation sequences

style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"

| style="text-align:right" | U+

24C2
style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base code pointⓂ
style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS15 (text){{Emoji presentation|Ⓜ|text}}
style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small;text-align:left" | base+VS16 (emoji){{Emoji presentation|Ⓜ}}

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block:

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Version{{nobr|Final code points}}CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
rowspan="2" | 1.0.0rowspan="2" | U+2460..24EArowspan="2" | 139(to be determined)
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11438-emoji-var.pdf L2/11-438]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4182.pdf N4182]{{Citation|title=Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)|date=2011-12-22|first=Peter|last=Edberg}}
rowspan="4" | 3.2rowspan="4" | U+24EB..24FErowspan="4" | 20{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99238-non-kanji2.pdf L2/99-238]}}{{Citation|title=Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals|date=1999-07-15}}
[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2093.pdf N2093]{{Citation|title=Addition of medical symbols and enclosed numbers|date=1999-09-13}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00010-n2103.pdf L2/00-010]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2103.pdf N2103]{{Citation|title=Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16|date=2000-01-05|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|section=8.8}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00296-n2256.pdf L2/00-296]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2256.doc N2256]{{Citation|title=Circled Numbers in JIS X 0213|date=2000-09-04|first=T. K.|last=Sato}}
rowspan="3" | 4.0rowspan="3" | U+24FFrowspan="3" | 1{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01480-muller.pdf L2/01-480]}}{{Citation|title=Proposal to add NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO|date=2001-12-14|first=Eric|last=Muller}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02193-01480r-muller.pdf L2/02-193]}}{{Citation|title=Proposal to add Negative Circled Digit Zero|date=2001-12-14|first=Eric|last=Muller}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02070.htm L2/02-070]}}{{Citation|title=Minutes for UTC #90|date=2002-08-26|first=Lisa|last=Moore|section=NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO|quote=Consensus: Accept the character NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO at U+24FF.}}
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Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf L2/10-458], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11414-emoji-var-seq.pdf L2/11-414], [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11415-unified-emoji-ref.pdf L2/11-415], and [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11429-emoji-var-seq-list.pdf L2/11-429]

Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents}}

See also

References

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