U+3023 "〣" Hangzhou Numeral Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3023 "〣" Hangzhou Numeral Three is a numeric symbol from a traditional Chinese counting system historically used in the Hangzhou or Suzhou region, often seen in financial documents and old merchant ledgers to represent the number three. It is distinct from standard Chinese numerical characters and is part of a set of specialized numerals that were employed to prevent fraud and alterations in commercial records. In modern contexts, this character remains a historical artifact within the Unicode standard, preserving a unique aspect of East Asian numerical notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3023 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangzhou Numeral Three |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3023 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003023 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3023 |