Units · WritingU+2116 · Letterlike Symbols
№
Numero Sign
U+2116 · decimal 8470 · Letterlike Symbols
Every way to write it
6 formsHTML entity
№
This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.
CSS content
\2116
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u2116
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u2116
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%E2%84%96
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
E2 84 96
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search numero sign
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 8470
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+2116
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo