U+1D370 "𝍰" Counting Rod Tens Digit Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝍰
U+1D370 "𝍰" Counting Rod Tens Digit Eight is a symbol from the ancient Chinese counting rod numeral system, which was used for mathematical calculations before the adoption of the abacus and represents the value of eighty in the place value of tens. This specific digit, one of twenty in the Counting Rod Numerals block, depicts a horizontal line with a distinctive angular form that visually echoes the rod arrangement used in historical board calculations. It is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is part of a scriptless symbol set that provides support for documenting early East Asian arithmetic, though its modern usage is primarily academic or in historical typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D370 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Counting Rod Tens Digit Eight |
| Block | Counting Rod Numerals |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝍰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝍰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x8D 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDF70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D370 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udf70 |