U+2449 "⑉" Ocr Customer Account Number Unicode Character

U+2449 "⑉" Ocr Customer Account Number is a specific typographic symbol used in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) standard known as OCR-B, which was developed to facilitate machine reading of printed text, particularly on financial documents like checks and bank statements. This character is one of several “OCR” characters in the Unicode block that encode specialized symbols designed to represent account numbers or other fixed-format numeric sequences, allowing scanners to accurately interpret handwritten or printed digits within structured fields. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text processing systems can preserve and reproduce this machine-readable notation, even though its use has declined with the rise of digital banking and magnetic ink character recognition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2449
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ocr Customer Account Number
Block	Optical Character Recognition
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Alias	MICR DASH SYMBOL (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⑉
HTML Hex Encoding	⑉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x91 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2449
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002449
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2449

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