Circled Digit Two

Group: Enclosed

Keywords

enclosed

About this character

Circled Digit Two belongs to the Enclosed group and is encoded at U+2461. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2461
Hex: 2461
Decimal: 9313
HTML: ②
CSS: \2461
JavaScript: \u2461
Python: \u2461
UTF-8: E2 91 A1

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Circled Digit One U+2460
Circled Digit Three U+2462
Circled Digit Four U+2463
Circled Digit Five U+2464
Circled Digit Six U+2465
Circled Digit Seven U+2466
Circled Digit Eight U+2467
Circled Digit Nine U+2468
Circled Number Ten U+2469
Circled Number Eleven U+246A
Circled Number Twelve U+246B
Circled Number Thirteen U+246C
Circled Number Fourteen U+246D
Circled Number Fifteen U+246E
Circled Number Sixteen U+246F
Circled Number Seventeen U+2470
Circled Number Eighteen U+2471
Circled Number Nineteen U+2472
Circled Number Twenty U+2473
Parenthesized Digit One U+2474
Parenthesized Digit Two U+2475
Parenthesized Digit Three U+2476
Parenthesized Digit Four U+2477
Parenthesized Digit Five U+2478

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.