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

Circled Digit Nine is U+2468 in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine is U+2788 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 Nine?

The HTML entity for Circled Digit Nine (U+2468) is ⑨.

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

The HTML entity for Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine (U+2788) is ➈.

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

No. Circled Digit Nine is U+2468 (decimal 9320) and Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine is U+2788 (decimal 10120). They are separate codepoints.

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

Circled Digit Nine (U+2468) encodes as E2 91 A8 in UTF-8. Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine (U+2788) encodes as E2 9E 88 in UTF-8.

Circled Digit Nine vs Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine

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.

⑨

Circled Digit Nine

U+2468

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➈

Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine

U+2788

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Property Comparison

Property	Circled Digit Nine	Dingbat Circled Sans-serif Digit Nine
Codepoint	`U+2468`	`U+2788`
Decimal	`9320`	`10120`
HTML Entity	`⑨`	`➈`
HTML Decimal	`⑨`	`➈`
HTML Hex	`⑨`	`➈`
UTF-8	`E2 91 A8`	`E2 9E 88`
UTF-16	`24 68`	`27 88`
UTF-32	`00002468`	`00002788`
CSS Escape	`\2468`	`\2788`
JS Escape	`\u2468`	`\u2788`
Python Escape	`\u2468`	`\u2788`
URL Encoded	`%E2%91%A8`	`%E2%9E%88`
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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