U+3038 "〸" Hangzhou Numeral Ten Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3038 "〸" Hangzhou Numeral Ten is a historical symbol used in the Chinese Suzhou numeral system, also known as Hangzhou numerals, which were employed for commercial and accounting purposes before the widespread adoption of modern Arabic numerals. This character visually represents the number ten and is part of a larger set of numeric symbols that originated in the Song dynasty. Although its use has largely declined, it remains encoded in Unicode under the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block to preserve its cultural and historical significance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3038 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Hangzhou Numeral Ten |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3038 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003038 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3038 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 10 |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| 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 |