U+1D2C5 "𝋅" Kaktovik Numeral Five Unicode Character

U+1D2C5 "𝋅" Kaktovik Numeral Five is a numeric symbol representing the digit five in the Kaktovik numerals, a base-20 counting system originally developed by Iñupiaq students in Kaktovik, Alaska, during the 1990s to support their Indigenous language's arithmetic needs. This visually distinctive glyph resembles an upward-pointing chevron or a simplified fish shape, reflecting the system's design principle where numbers correspond to hand gestures and counts. As part of the Unicode standard's Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, this character was added in 2022 to facilitate digital representation and preservation of the Iñupiaq numerical tradition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D2C5
Version Added	15.0
Name	Kaktovik Numeral Five
Block	Kaktovik Numerals
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝋅
HTML Hex Encoding	𝋅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x8B 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD834 0xDEC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D2C5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud834\udec5

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	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other