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digit nine comma

Digit Nine Comma

🄊 packs digit nine and a following comma into one character. It comes from Japanese TV data-broadcast text; compatibility cleanup can expand it back to <code>9,</code>.

Text symbol
Search it as
9 comma · 9, symbol · arib symbol · tv text symbol · unicode 1f10a
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🄊 means

Read 🄊 as 9,: digit nine followed by a comma.

ARIB (the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) STD-B24 is Japan’s digital-TV data-broadcasting standard. A 2007 proposal lists this digit-comma series in its TV-text character set. It says unencoded symbols were held in font-specific private-use slots, which could mean different characters in different fonts; the proposal sought shared codes. Unicode preserves this member for compatibility.

Why can 🄊 become 9,?

Compatibility normalization can unfold it into two ordinary characters.

Compatibility normalization (NFKC, a text-cleanup form) maps it to two characters: 9,. Text matching or character counts can change after that conversion.

Technical and archival: it preserves a specific Japanese TV text character.

Don't confuse it with

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🄁
Digit Zero Comma
shares “comma”, “digit”
🄂
Digit One Comma
shares “comma”, “digit”
🄃
Digit Two Comma
shares “comma”, “digit”
🄄
Digit Three Comma
shares “comma”, “digit”

Questions people ask

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Why does 🄊 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 🄊

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F10A, then Alt+X to get 🄊.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “digit nine comma”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f10a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
&#x1F10A;
CSS
\1F10A
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
&#127242;
HTML hex
&#x1F10A;
CSS content
content: "\1F10A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%84%8A
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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