U+2174 "ⅴ" Small Roman Numeral Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⅴ
U+2174 "ⅴ" Small Roman Numeral Five is a typographic glyph representing the number five in the lowercase Roman numeral system, derived from the Latin letter "v". It is primarily used in historical or formal contexts where small caps or lowercase roman numerals are preferred, such as in prefaces, clock faces, or numbered lists to denote the fifth item. This character occupies a distinct code point in Unicode's Number Forms block, allowing it to be consistently rendered across digital platforms without relying on special font styling. Its primary function is to provide a precise textual representation of the value five in a lowercase numeral format, distinct from the uppercase "V" (U+0056) and the standard digit "5".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2174 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Roman Numeral Five |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2174 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002174 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2174 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 5 |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Other Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅴ" U+2164 Roman Numeral Five |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅴ" U+2164 Roman Numeral Five |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ⅴ" U+2164 Roman Numeral Five |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ⅴ" U+2164 Roman Numeral Five |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Lower |