How do I type the ↆ roman numeral fifty early form symbol?

On Windows, type 2186 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2186. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ↆ?

Roman Numeral Fifty Early Form is U+2186. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ↆ?

Roman Numeral Fifty Early Form is filed under Letter number in the Number Forms block, and was introduced in Unicode 5.1. This is a letter number: a character that looks like a letter but carries a numeric value, the way Roman numerals do.

U+2186 · Letter number

Roman Numeral Fifty Early Form Symbol ↆ

ↆ is roman numeral fifty early form, and Unicode gives it the numeric value 50. It was added in Unicode 5.1, and Unicode files it under Letter number.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2186`
HTML hex	`ↆ`
HTML decimal	`ↆ`
CSS	`\2186`
JavaScript	`\u{2186}`
Python	`\U00002186`
Java / C#	`\u2186`
Rust	`\u{2186}`
Swift	`\u{2186}`
PHP	`\u{2186}`
URL encoded	`%E2%86%86`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 86 86`
UTF-16 bytes	`2186`
Base64	`4oaG`
Decimal	`8582`
Numeric value	50
Category	Letter number (Nl)
Introduced	Unicode 5.1

Will ↆ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. ↆ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. ↆ 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.

Unicode cross-references

The standard points readers of ↆ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.

↓U+2193downwards arrow

Nearby in Number Forms

Roman numerals as single characters, and the vulgar fractions beyond the three Latin-1 supplies. A Roman numeral here is one character, not a run of letters, so Ⅷ and VIII sort and search differently.

All 58 characters in Number Forms →

How to type ↆ

Windows	Type `2186` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “roman numeral fifty early form”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `2186`, press `Enter`
HTML	`ↆ`

About Unicode’s Letter number category

This is a letter number: a character that looks like a letter but carries a numeric value, the way Roman numerals do.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ↆ roman numeral fifty early form symbol?: On Windows, type 2186 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2186. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ↆ?: Roman Numeral Fifty Early Form is U+2186. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ↆ?: Roman Numeral Fifty Early Form is filed under Letter number in the Number Forms block, and was introduced in Unicode 5.1. This is a letter number: a character that looks like a letter but carries a numeric value, the way Roman numerals do.