U+1ED36 "𞴶" Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Nine Unicode Character

U+1ED36 "𞴶" Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Nine is a special digit used within the Ottoman Siyaq numerical notation system, a script-based method for recording numbers in Ottoman Turkish financial and administrative documents. This particular glyph represents the variant or alternate form of the number nine, as opposed to the standard Siyaq digit for nine, and was employed to help prevent fraud or ambiguity in ledgers and contracts. Included in the Unicode Standard under the "Ottoman Siyaq Numbers" block, it encodes a historical numeral that appears in manuscripts and accounting records from the Ottoman Empire, preserving the distinct typographic conventions of that era's numerical writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ED36
Version Added	12.0
Name	Ottoman Siyaq Alternate Number Nine
Block	Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞴶
HTML Hex Encoding	𞴶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB4 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDD36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001ED36
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\udd36

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