U+11056 "𑁖" Brahmi Number Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑁖
U+11056 "𑁖" Brahmi Number Five is a numeral from the ancient Brahmi script, one of the earliest writing systems used in the Indian subcontinent, dating back to the 3rd century BCE. This glyph represents the numerical value five and was part of a decimal notation system that influenced later South Asian numeral traditions, including modern Devanagari digits. Encoded in Unicode's Brahmi block, it allows scholars and digital archivists to accurately represent historical inscriptions and manuscripts, preserving the numerical expressions of early Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11056 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Number Five |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑁖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑁖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x81 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011056 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc56 |