U+2446 "⑆" Ocr Branch Bank Identification Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑆
U+2446 "⑆" Ocr Branch Bank Identification is a specialized symbol from the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) font block, historically used as a machine-readable marker on bank checks and financial documents to indicate the specific branch of a financial institution. It was designed to be scanned by early OCR systems employed in automated check processing, where it would sit within the MICR line or similar encoded areas to denote branch routing information distinct from the bank’s main identifier. While largely obsolete in modern digital banking, it remains preserved in the Unicode standard as a historical artifact of pre-digital automated financial data handling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2446 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ocr Branch Bank Identification |
| Block | Optical Character Recognition |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⑆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⑆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x91 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2446 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002446 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2446 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |