U+1CD2E "𜴮" Block Octant-12356 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜴮

U+1CD2E "𜴮" Block Octant-12356 is a rarely encountered symbol defined within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically belonging to the small and specialized "Counting Rod Numerals" block, which encodes ancient Chinese counting rod numbers used for calculation and notation. This particular glyph represents a specific numerical value through a configuration of rods, often denoting the digit seven, and its design mimics the physical bamboo or wood rods historically laid out in a decimal positional system. The "Octant-12356" component in its name refers to a unique classification scheme for describing the orientation and arrangement of the rods within a cubic octant space, highlighting its structured geometric nature. As a historiographical and computing convention, this character serves to preserve and digitally render a non-standard numeral system from East Asian mathematical history.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CD2E
Version Added 16.0
Name Block Octant-12356
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜴮
HTML Hex Encoding 𜴮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB4 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDD2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CD2E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\udd2e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other