U+1ED09 "ðž´‰" Ottoman Siyaq Number Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž´‰
U+1ED09 "ðž´‰" Ottoman Siyaq Number Nine is a numeral from the Ottoman Siyaq numbering system, a script used historically in the Ottoman Empire for financial and administrative documents to represent numbers in a cursive, compact form. This specific character denotes the numerical value nine, and it belongs to the Ottoman Siyaq Numbers block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the digitization of historical texts and accounting records. Its inclusion helps preserve and make accessible the unique numeric notation that was integral to Ottoman bureaucracy, where each digit had a distinct, often ligatured, glyph shape to prevent forgery and ensure clarity in ledgers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ED09 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Ottoman Siyaq Number Nine |
| Block | Ottoman Siyaq Numbers |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞴉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞴉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xB4 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83B 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001ED09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83b\udd09 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 9 |
| 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 |