U+2181 "ↁ" Roman Numeral Five Thousand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2181 "ↁ" Roman Numeral Five Thousand is a historical numeral symbol used in ancient and medieval Roman notation to represent the value of 5,000. It is classified as a Roman numeral in the Unicode standard, distinct from the more common "V" with an overline or other variations, and is rarely used in contemporary contexts except in specialized fields such as epigraphy, historical typography, or for stylistic purposes. This character is part of the Number Forms block and enables digital representation of a numeral that was traditionally formed by placing a bar over the letter "V" to multiply its value by one thousand.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2181 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Roman Numeral Five Thousand |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ↁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ↁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x86 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2181 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002181 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2181 |