U+1D363 "𝍣" Counting Rod Unit Digit Four Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝍣
U+1D363 "𝍣" Counting Rod Unit Digit Four is a numeral symbol from the ancient Chinese counting rod system, which was used for arithmetic calculations before the adoption of the abacus. This particular character represents the digit four in the ones' place, formed by a vertical arrangement of four horizontal lines, a convention that differed from the later Suzhou numeral system. In Unicode, it belongs to the "Counting Rod Numerals" block, which preserves these historical rod digits for scholarly and digital representation of early East Asian mathematics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D363 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Counting Rod Unit Digit Four |
| Block | Counting Rod Numerals |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝍣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝍣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x8D 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDF63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D363 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udf63 |