U+10F21 "𐼡" Old Sogdian Number Five Unicode Character

U+10F21 "𐼡" Old Sogdian Number Five is a numerical symbol from the Old Sogdian script, which was used to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language once spoken across Central Asia along the Silk Road. This character represents the number five in the Sogdian numeral system, which was based on a combination of additive and decimal principles. The script itself evolved from the Syriac alphabet and later influenced the development of the Uyghur and Mongolian scripts, making this numeral a small but significant piece of the linguistic and commercial history of medieval trade routes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10F21
Version Added	11.0
Name	Old Sogdian Number Five
Block	Old Sogdian
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐼡
HTML Hex Encoding	𐼡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xBC 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD803 0xDF21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010F21
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud803\udf21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	5
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Old Sogdian
Script Extensions	Old Sogdian
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other