See also: 2̂,
2.,
շ [U+0577 ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER SHA],
ջ [U+057B ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER JHEH],
೩ [U+0CE9 KANNADA DIGIT THREE],
ᒿ [U+14BF CANADIAN SYLLABICS SAYISI M], and ② [U+2461 CIRCLED DIGIT TWO]
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Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari २ (2)), from a cursive form of two lines to represent the number two. See 2 § Evolution for more.
Symbol
2 (prev 1, next 3)
- The cardinal number two.
- A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
- A rotational symmetry element in the Hermann-Mauguin notation, indicating a rotation over π (twofold axis).
- (mathematics) The two-element Boolean algebra, two-point discrete space or a (canonical) two-element set.
- (superscript) The square of a number or a unit.
- m2 stands for square meter.
- n2 is usually pronounced as "n squared".
- (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone, whose value depends on local convention (e.g. nearly as high or as low as 1, if four or more numbers are used; mid pitch if the numbers 1–3 are used; or contrasting with 1 if only '1' and '2' are used)
- Synonyms: ˥, ˦, ˧, ˨, ˩, depending on other values
- (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 2, typically identified with light level yang ping (陽平). May be identified with rising shang tone (上) if the yin–yang distinction is not made.
- Synonyms: ꜁, ꜂
- (linguistics, superscript) accent 2 in Norwegian, Swedish and Limburgish.
- Norwegian/Swedish toneme 2 has also been transcribed with a double stress mark, that is ⟨ˈˈ⟩, as well as ⟨ˇ⟩, ⟨˟⟩ and ⟨ˆ⟩.
Gallery
- Letter styles
Lining digit 2.
Oldstyle
2 in
Fraktur script.
The following forms are equivalent as a decimal digit:
The following additional forms are equivalent as a cardinal number:
See also
Other representations of 2:
Symbol
2 (colloquial, chiefly text messaging)
- used to represent the syllable to or tu due to similarity of pronunciation with English two
- 22o (totoo) ― real
- d2 (dito) ― here
- 2malon (tumalon) ― to jump