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

Circled Digit Five is U+2464 in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five is U+2784 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 Five?

The HTML entity for Circled Digit Five (U+2464) is ⑤.

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

The HTML entity for Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five (U+2784) is ➄.

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

No. Circled Digit Five is U+2464 (decimal 9316) and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five is U+2784 (decimal 10116). They are separate codepoints.

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

Circled Digit Five (U+2464) encodes as E2 91 A4 in UTF-8. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five (U+2784) encodes as E2 9E 84 in UTF-8.

Circled Digit Five vs Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five

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.

⑤

Circled Digit Five

U+2464

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➄

Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five

U+2784

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Property Comparison

Property	Circled Digit Five	Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Five
Codepoint	`U+2464`	`U+2784`
Decimal	`9316`	`10116`
HTML Entity	`⑤`	`➄`
HTML Decimal	`⑤`	`➄`
HTML Hex	`⑤`	`➄`
UTF-8	`E2 91 A4`	`E2 9E 84`
UTF-16	`24 64`	`27 84`
UTF-32	`00002464`	`00002784`
CSS Escape	`\2464`	`\2784`
JS Escape	`\u2464`	`\u2784`
Python Escape	`\u2464`	`\u2784`
URL Encoded	`%E2%91%A4`	`%E2%9E%84`
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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