U+1ED31 "𞴱" Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Four Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𞴱

U+1ED31 "𞴱" Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Four is a numeral from the Ottoman Siyaq number system, a script used historically in the Ottoman Empire for financial and administrative documents to represent numbers in a compact and secure manner. This specific glyph serves as an alternate form for the digit four, part of a set of numerals that helped prevent forgery and ambiguity in ledgers, taxes, and legal records. The character belongs to the Ottoman Siyaq Numbers block, encoded in Unicode to preserve the unique typographic heritage of Ottoman Turkish numeracy, reflecting the empire's sophisticated bureaucratic and accounting traditions. Its inclusion in the standard ensures digital representation and study of these historical numeral systems alongside modern scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ED31
Version Added	12.0
Name	Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Four
Block	Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞴱
HTML Hex Encoding	𞴱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB4 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDD31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001ED31
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\udd31

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	4
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