U+1F9EE "🧮" Abacus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧮
U+1F9EE "🧮" Abacus is a digital representation of the ancient counting tool used for arithmetic calculations, consisting of beads that slide along rods within a frame. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, this character serves both as a practical symbol for mathematics and calculation, and as a nostalgic nod to pre digital computing methods. It is often employed in contexts related to education, accounting, or retro technology, and its design typically varies slightly across platforms, with some depicting a classic Chinese suanpan style and others a more generic frame with colorful beads.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9EE |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Abacus |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddee |