PARENTHESIZED DIGIT THREE·U+2476

Character Information

Code Point
U+2476
HEX
2476
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Number

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E2 91 B6
11100010 10010001 10110110
UTF16 (big Endian)
24 76
00100100 01110110
UTF16 (little Endian)
76 24
01110110 00100100
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 24 76
00000000 00000000 00100100 01110110
UTF32 (little Endian)
76 24 00 00
01110110 00100100 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
⑶
URI Encoded
%E2%91%B6

Description

The Unicode character U+2476, known as PARENTHESIZED DIGIT THREE, is a typographic symbol that plays a crucial role in digital text representation. This character is part of the "Combining Number Forms" block and is often used in mathematical expressions, programming languages, and computer notations to indicate parenthesized digits within a numerical sequence. Unlike standard numerals or punctuation marks, U+2476 represents a digit enclosed within a set of parentheses. The use of PARENTHESIZED DIGIT THREE is predominantly technical, serving as an indicator of a specific position within a series, or as a way to highlight or emphasize certain digits in the context of numbers. This character has no direct cultural, linguistic, or aesthetic significance, and its primary function is to provide clarity and precision in various digital applications.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 9334 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+2476. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+2476 to binary: 00100100 01110110. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100010 10010001 10110110