U+06F5 "۵" Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06F5 "۵" Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Five is a numeral symbol used in the extended Arabic script, primarily representing the number five in writing systems such as Persian, Urdu, and other languages that employ the Eastern Arabic numeral variant. It is distinct from the standard Arabic-Indic digit five, which is commonly used in Arabic, and belongs to the Arabic block of Unicode, encoded for compatibility with digital text representation. Visually, it resembles a curved shape with a dot below, and it is employed in contexts like dates, prices, and numbering in regions where this numeral style is standard, such as Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of South Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06F5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Five |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Eastern Arabic-Indic Digit Five |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06f5 |