What is the difference between Circled Digit One and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One?

Circled Digit One is U+2460 in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One is U+2780 in the Dingbats block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Circled Digit One?

The HTML entity for Circled Digit One (U+2460) is ①.

What is the HTML entity for Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One?

The HTML entity for Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One (U+2780) is ➀.

Are Circled Digit One and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One the same Unicode character?

No. Circled Digit One is U+2460 (decimal 9312) and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One is U+2780 (decimal 10112). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Circled Digit One and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One?

Circled Digit One (U+2460) encodes as E2 91 A0 in UTF-8. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One (U+2780) encodes as E2 9E 80 in UTF-8.

Circled Digit One vs Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

①

Circled Digit One

U+2460

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➀

Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One

U+2780

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Property Comparison

Property	Circled Digit One	Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit One
Codepoint	`U+2460`	`U+2780`
Decimal	`9312`	`10112`
HTML Entity	`①`	`➀`
HTML Decimal	`①`	`➀`
HTML Hex	`①`	`➀`
UTF-8	`E2 91 A0`	`E2 9E 80`
UTF-16	`24 60`	`27 80`
UTF-32	`00002460`	`00002780`
CSS Escape	`\2460`	`\2780`
JS Escape	`\u2460`	`\u2780`
Python Escape	`\u2460`	`\u2780`
URL Encoded	`%E2%91%A0`	`%E2%9E%80`
Category	`Other Number (No)`	`Other Number (No)`
Block	`Enclosed Alphanumerics`	`Dingbats`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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