Enclosed Alphanumerics

{{Short description|Unicode block of typographical symbols}} {{Redirect|Ⓐ|the symbol of anarchism|Circle-A{{!}}''Circle-A''}} {{Redirect|Ⓓ|the political party with that symbol|Democratic Party (United States)}} {{Redirect|Ⓟ|phonorecording copyright symbol ℗|sound recording copyright symbol}} {{redirect-multi|4|Ⓡ|R in a circle|Enclosed R|Circled Latin R|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)}} {{redirect2|②|⑩|the Steinhaus-Moser number ② (mega) or ⑩ (megiston)|Steinhaus–Moser notation}} {{Infobox Unicode block |rangestart = 2460 |rangeend = 24FF |script1 = Common |1_0_0 = 139 |3_2 = 20 |4_0 = 1 |note = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|access-date=2023-07-26}}</ref> }}

'''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.

The block is 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.

The character {{unichar|20DD|cwith=}} from Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols is available for composing other, arbitrary encircled symbols.

==Purpose== Many of these characters were originally intended for use as bullets for lists.<ref name="u6">''The Unicode Standard'', 6.0.1</ref> The parenthesized forms are historically based on typewriter approximations of the circled versions.<ref name="u6"/> 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."<ref name="u6"/> 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.<ref name="u6"/>

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.<ref name="TNMR">{{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}}</ref>

==Block== {{Unicode chart Enclosed Alphanumerics}}

==Emoji==

The Enclosed Alphanumerics block contains one emoji: U+24C2, the enclosed M<ref name="UTR51">{{cite web|url=https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/|title=UTR #51: Unicode Emoji|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-09-05}}</ref><ref name="EmojiData">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt|title=UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-02-01}}</ref>, which is used as a symbol for mask works.

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).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/latest/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt|title=UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences | publisher=The Unicode Consortium}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable nounderlines" style="background:#fff; font-size:large; text-align:center;" |+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:

{{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable collapsible sticky-header" |- ! Version !! {{nobr|Final code points<ref group=lower-alpha name=final/>}} !! Count !! L2 ID !! WG2 ID !! Document |- | rowspan="2" | 1.0.0 || rowspan="2" | U+2460..24EA || rowspan="2" | 139 || || || (to be determined) |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11438-emoji-var.pdf L2/11-438]<ref group=lower-alpha name=also10458/><ref group=lower-alpha name=emojidocs/>}} || [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" | 3.2 || rowspan="4" | U+24EB..24FE || rowspan="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" | 4.0 || rowspan="3" | U+24FF || rowspan="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.}} |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="6" | {{reflist|group=lower-alpha|refs= <ref name=final>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names</ref> <ref name=also10458>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]</ref> <ref name=emojidocs>Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents</ref>}} |}

==See also== * Special characters: ** Enclosed C ** Enclosed A ** Copyright symbol ** Registered trademark symbol ** Sound recording copyright symbol ** At sign (partially enclosed A) * Character sets: ** Japanese rebus monogram ** Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement ** Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (extends enclosed Arabic decimal numbers to ㊿)

==References== <references />

Category:Typographical symbols Alphanumerics