№
Numero Sign
- Unicode
- U+2116
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- №
- CSS
- \2116
The numero sign (№) is a one-character abbreviation for "number", built from a capital N and a small raised o. It is standard in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and other Cyrillic writing (школа № 5), where keyboards give it its own place, and it turns up in older European print. English normally writes No. or # instead (No. 1, #1). It is not the hash #, even though American English calls that sign the number sign.
In the Russian layout on Windows, and in the Russian – PC layout on a Mac, № is Shift+3. US and UK layouts have no key for it: in Word, type 2116 and press Alt+X; on a Mac, search "numero" in the Character Viewer (Control+Command+Space); on Linux press Compose, N, o. On a phone it is quickest to copy it from this page.
In the Russian layout on Windows, and in the Russian – PC layout on a Mac, № is Shift+3. US and UK layouts have no key for it: in Word, type 2116 and press Alt+X; on a Mac, search "numero" in the Character Viewer (Control+Command+Space); on Linux press Compose, N, o. On a phone it is quickest to copy it from this page.
How to Type
- Windows
- Shift+3 (Russian layout) · In Word: type 2116, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no English-layout shortcut for it — copy it from this page
- macOS
- Shift+3 (Russian – PC layout) · Control+Command+Space then search "numero"
- Linux
- Compose N o · Ctrl+Shift+U 2116
- HTML
- № or №
In Programming
№ is not ASCII and has no role in programming syntax, so it is safest in UTF-8 end to end. Among legacy single-byte encodings it is found mainly in Cyrillic code pages — Windows-1251 puts it at 0xB9, where Windows-1252 has ¹ — which is why mis-decoded text sometimes shows ¹ in its place. Unicode treats it as a compatibility character that NFKC normalisation turns into "No", so search and matching code may treat № and No as equal.
Tags
numero sign
number symbol
numero
no symbol
russian number sign
abbreviation for number
keyboard symbol
punctuation