U+2449 "" Ocr Customer Account Number Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+2449 "" Ocr Customer Account Number is a specific typographic symbol used in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) standard known as OCR-B, which was developed to facilitate machine reading of printed text, particularly on financial documents like checks and bank statements. This character is one of several “OCR” characters in the Unicode block that encode specialized symbols designed to represent account numbers or other fixed-format numeric sequences, allowing scanners to accurately interpret handwritten or printed digits within structured fields. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text processing systems can preserve and reproduce this machine-readable notation, even though its use has declined with the rise of digital banking and magnetic ink character recognition.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2449
Name
Ocr Customer Account Number
Alias
MICR DASH SYMBOL (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⑉
HTML Hex Encoding
⑉
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x91 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2449
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002449
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2449