U+1ED05 "𞴅" Ottoman Siyaq Number Five Unicode Character

U+1ED05 "𞴅" Ottoman Siyaq Number Five is a numeric symbol from the Ottoman Siyaq numbering system, which was historically used in Ottoman Turkish financial and accounting documents to represent the digit five. This script, derived from the Arabic abjad numeral tradition, employed distinct characters to denote numbers in official records, such as tax ledgers and land surveys, to prevent fraud and ensure clarity in calculations. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character preserves a specialized numeral form that differs from standard Arabic digits, linking modern digital text processing to the administrative practices of the Ottoman Empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ED05
Version Added	12.0
Name	Ottoman Siyaq Number Five
Block	Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞴅
HTML Hex Encoding	𞴅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB4 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDD05
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001ED05
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\udd05

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