U+3029 "〩" Hangzhou Numeral Nine Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3029 "〩" Hangzhou Numeral Nine is an ideographic symbol historically used in the suzhou numeral system, a traditional Chinese method of writing numbers that originated in the Song dynasty and was commonly employed in commercial and accounting contexts. This particular character represents the number nine and is visually derived from a variant of the Chinese character for "nine" (九), though it features a distinct stylized form to fit the numeral set. Unlike standard Chinese numerals, which are often written in a manner similar to regular text, Hangzhou numerals are typically arranged vertically or within a two-by-two grid for clarity in ledgers and documents. The character belongs to the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block in the Unicode standard and is primarily of historical interest today, as the suzhou numeral system has largely been replaced by Arabic numerals in modern Chinese usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+3029
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangzhou Numeral Nine
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 〩
HTML Hex Encoding 〩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x80 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3029
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003029
C/C++/Java Escape \u3029

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 9
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