U+277B · Other number
Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Six Symbol ❻
❻ is dingbat negative circled digit six, and Unicode gives it the numeric value 6. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Other number.
Also known as
Unicode 1.0 called this character inverse circled digit six. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+277B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ❻ | |
| HTML decimal | ❻ | |
| CSS | \277B | |
| JavaScript | \u{277B} | |
| Python | \U0000277B | |
| Java / C# | \u277B | |
| Rust | \u{277b} | |
| Swift | \u{277B} | |
| PHP | \u{277B} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9D%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9D BB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 277B | |
| Base64 | 4p27 | |
| Decimal | 10107 | |
| Numeric value | 6 | |
| Category | Other number (No) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 1.1 | |
Will ❻ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. Yes. ❻ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
- Legacy encodings. ❻ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Other six characters
Unicode names 10 characters ending in “six”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.
Nearby in Dingbats
Zapf Dingbats, encoded character for character: ornamental stars, crosses, check marks, scissors and pointing hands. The check marks and crosses here are the ones most often pasted into documents and spreadsheets.
How to type ❻
| Windows | Type 277B then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “dingbat negative circled digit six” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 277b, press Enter |
| HTML | ❻ |
About Unicode’s Other number category
This is classified as a number that is not a plain digit — a fraction, a superscript figure, a circled or bracketed numeral. Software will not parse it as a number without being told to.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ❻ dingbat negative circled digit six symbol?
- On Windows, type 277B and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 277b. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ❻?
- Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Six is U+277B. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is ❻?
- Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Six is filed under Other number in the Dingbats block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. This is classified as a number that is not a plain digit — a fraction, a superscript figure, a circled or bracketed numeral. Software will not parse it as a number without being told to.