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

Circled Digit Three is U+2462 in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three is U+2782 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 Three?

The HTML entity for Circled Digit Three (U+2462) is ③.

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

The HTML entity for Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three (U+2782) is ➂.

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

No. Circled Digit Three is U+2462 (decimal 9314) and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three is U+2782 (decimal 10114). They are separate codepoints.

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

Circled Digit Three (U+2462) encodes as E2 91 A2 in UTF-8. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three (U+2782) encodes as E2 9E 82 in UTF-8.

Circled Digit Three vs Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three

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.

③

Circled Digit Three

U+2462

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➂

Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three

U+2782

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Property Comparison

Property	Circled Digit Three	Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Three
Codepoint	`U+2462`	`U+2782`
Decimal	`9314`	`10114`
HTML Entity	`③`	`➂`
HTML Decimal	`③`	`➂`
HTML Hex	`③`	`➂`
UTF-8	`E2 91 A2`	`E2 9E 82`
UTF-16	`24 62`	`27 82`
UTF-32	`00002462`	`00002782`
CSS Escape	`\2462`	`\2782`
JS Escape	`\u2462`	`\u2782`
Python Escape	`\u2462`	`\u2782`
URL Encoded	`%E2%91%A2`	`%E2%9E%82`
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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