U+3028 "〨" Hangzhou Numeral Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3028 "〨" Hangzhou Numeral Eight is a numeric symbol from the traditional Chinese numeric system known as Suzhou or Hangzhou numerals, which were historically used in commerce and accounting to represent numbers in a compact, stroke-based notation. This specific character denotes the number eight, and its graphic form consists of a vertical line with a distinctive curved hook at the top, distinguishing it from other numeral symbols in the same block. As part of the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block in Unicode, it is encoded for digital representation of historical and regional numeral systems, though it is rarely used in modern everyday Chinese writing, having been largely replaced by standard Arabic numerals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3028 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangzhou Numeral Eight |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3028 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003028 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3028 |