Number symbols: circled numbers, Roman numerals and fractions

Style	Characters	Official name example
Circled	⓪ ① ② ③ … ⑳	CIRCLED DIGIT ONE
Negative circled	❶ ❷ ❸ … ❿	DINGBAT NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ONE
Parenthesized	⑴ ⑵ ⑶	PARENTHESIZED DIGIT ONE
With period	⒈ ⒉	DIGIT ONE FULL STOP

They're single characters, so a circled number stays one unit when you paste it: handy for numbered steps in a social post, callouts on a screenshot or map, or recipe steps in a text message. Unicode's ready-made circled numbers on this page stop at ⑳ and ❿; circled numbers from 21 to 50 exist in a separate East Asian block, but fewer fonts include them.

For real numbered lists in documents and web pages, use the list feature instead. It renumbers automatically and screen readers understand it.

Unicode has dedicated Roman numeral characters: Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ Ⅴ Ⅵ Ⅶ Ⅷ Ⅸ Ⅹ Ⅺ Ⅻ and Ⅼ Ⅽ Ⅾ Ⅿ for 50, 100, 500 and 1000. They were included mainly for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, where a numeral like Ⅻ fits one square cell in vertical text or on a clock face.

For everyday writing, plain capital letters are usually the better choice: Chapter XII, Henry VIII, MMXXVI for 2026. Letters are found by search engines and by your browser's find feature, read correctly by screen readers, and look right in every font. Use the special characters only when you need a single-cell numeral, such as on a clock face design. To convert any number, use the Roman numeral converter.

Ready-made fractions: ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅐ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ⅑ ⅒. They're common in recipes (¾ cup flour) and measurements (5⅛ in.).

Fraction	Windows (US)	HTML
½	Alt + 0189	½
¼	Alt + 0188	¼
¾	Alt + 0190	¾

Word also replaces 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 with ½, ¼ and ¾ automatically as you type, unless that AutoFormat option is turned off.

Need a fraction that doesn't exist as one character, like 5/16? Build it from a superscript numerator, the ⁄ FRACTION SLASH and a subscript denominator: ⁵⁄₁₆. ⅟ (FRACTION NUMERATOR ONE) followed by digits gives 1-over fractions. To calculate with fractions, try the fraction calculator.

⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ and ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉ let you write ft², m³, H₂O or CO₂ in places with no formatting options.

• ² ³ ¹ come from the Latin-1 set and have Alt codes on US Windows: Alt + 0178, Alt + 0179 and Alt + 0185. In HTML: ², ³, ¹.
• ⁰ and ⁴–⁹ come from a different Unicode block, so in some fonts they sit at a slightly different height or size than ¹ ² ³.

For whole formulas and footnote markers, the superscript and subscript generator converts complete text.

The keycap emoji 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 2️⃣ … are not single characters. Each is a digit, followed by an emoji variation selector (U+FE0F) and COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP (U+20E3). If an app strips the extra parts, only the plain digit remains. #️⃣ is built the same way, while 🔟 is one character of its own. Because each keycap is three code points, it can use up a character limit faster than you'd expect.

Also on the page: № (NUMERO SIGN), the one-character No. that is common in Russian and other European texts, and ∞ infinity.

Click any symbol to copy it; the detail panel shows the code point, HTML code, CSS and JavaScript escapes and, where one exists, the Alt code. In Word, type the code (for example 2460 for ①) and press Alt + X.