U+136B "፫" Ethiopic Digit Three Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+136B "፫" Ethiopic Digit Three is a numeric symbol used in the Geʽez script, which historically serves as the writing system for several Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the number three within the Ethiopic numeral system, a decimal system where digits are derived from the first few letters of the Geʽez alphabet but have distinct numeric values. In modern usage, the Ethiopic digit three is primarily employed in traditional contexts such as religious texts, calendars, and historical inscriptions, though it has largely been supplanted by Arabic numerals for everyday arithmetic. The character itself is visually composed of a vertical stem with three horizontal ticks or curls, fitting the broader design of Ethiopic digits which maintain a consistent geometric style across all ten numeral forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+136B
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Digit Three
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ፫
HTML Hex Encoding ፫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8D 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x136B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000136B
C/C++/Java Escape \u136b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Digital
Numeric Value 3
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Continue Yes
Other ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other