Unicode Character "ⅱ" (U+2171)

The character ⅱ (Small Roman Numeral Two) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2171. It is encoded in the Number Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ⅱ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Small Roman Numeral Two
Unicode Codepoint U+2171
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Number Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Character Case

Case Lowercase
Uppercase character Ⅱ (U+2161)

Other Unicode Data

Category Letter Number
Script Latin
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+2171 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ⅱ
HTML (hex) ⅱ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%85%B1
CSS \002171
JavaScript, JSON \u2171
C, C++, Java \u2171
Python \u2171
Rust \u{2171}
Ruby \u2171

How to type "ⅱ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 1 7 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 1 7 1. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ⅱ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ⅱ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ⅱ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x85 0xB1
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2171
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002171

References