Turned Digit Two
Part of Math Symbols
Turned Digit Two has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ↊
- Unicode
- U+218A
About this symbol
↊, a turned 2, is a digit for ten in the dozenal, or base-twelve, number system. Isaac Pitman, the inventor of Pitman shorthand, proposed turned 2 and turned 3 for ten and eleven in 1857, and the Dozenal Society of Great Britain still uses them.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- TURNED DIGIT TWO
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Number Forms
- Unicode group
- Turned digits
- Added in
- Unicode 8.0 (2015)
- Unicode notes
- Digit for 10 in some duodecimal systems
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