U+3025 "〥" Hangzhou Numeral Five Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3025 "〥" Hangzhou Numeral Five is a typographic symbol used in the traditional Chinese Suzhou numeral system, which was historically employed for commercial and financial records. This character represents the numeral five, but its visual form is distinct from the standard Chinese character for five, "五," as it derives from an older rod numeral notation where vertical and horizontal lines indicated values. While the Suzhou system is now largely obsolete, the Hangzhou numeral five remains encoded in Unicode to preserve historical and calligraphic usage, particularly in contexts such as accounting ledgers or antique price markings. Its narrow, angular design often resembles a stylized cross or grid pattern, reflecting its origins in rod-based counting methods.

General Properties

Code Point U+3025
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangzhou Numeral Five
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 〥
HTML Hex Encoding 〥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x80 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3025
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003025
C/C++/Java Escape \u3025

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 5
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
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 Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes