U+06F9 "۹" Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06F9 "۹" Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Nine is a script specific numeral used in languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto, where it represents the digit nine and differs visually from the standard Arabic digit ٩ by having a more curved or looped shape. It is encoded in the Unicode block “Arabic” for use in digital text to distinguish this numeral from its Arabic counterpart, preserving orthographic conventions in contexts like dates, numbers, and mathematical expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06F9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Nine |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Eastern Arabic-Indic Digit Nine |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06f9 |