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extended arabic-indic digit five

Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Five

The Persian 5, also called Farsi 5, means five; Urdu writing uses this form too. Arabic writing usually uses ٥, while Latin writing uses 5. The value stays the same as the numeral shape changes across scripts.

Text symbol
Also called
Persian five · Farsi five · Urdu five
Search it as
persian 5 · farsi 5 · urdu 5 · arabic 5 · persian numeral · persian keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ۵ means

It stands for the number five.

Persian-language writing uses ۵ as a regional form in an Indian-derived decimal digit tradition; Urdu writing uses it too. The Persian numeral, also called Farsi 5, has the same value as Arabic ٥ or Latin 5.

Indian decimal numerals served calculation and were known in the Islamic world by 662. A manuscript copied in Shiraz (in today's Iran) in 969 and an astronomical manuscript copied in 1082 show eastern numeral shapes changing over time. Separately, a Persian shorthand called siāq built number notation from number words.

A literal numeral whose shape follows a regional digit set.

Arabic text usually uses ٥; ۵ is the Persian-style form.

Don't confuse it with

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٥
Arabic-Indic Digit Five
Persian 5 vs Arabic 5: same value, different characters; Persian uses ۵ and Arabic uses ٥.

Questions people ask

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Why does ۵ 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 ۵

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 06F5, then Alt+X to get ۵.
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 “extended arabic-indic digit five”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 06f5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
۵
CSS
\06F5
Persian input
How to type ۵: choose Persian input; As of 2026, Persian keyboard layouts can produce this form. Check the result: ۵, not ٥ or 5.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
۵
HTML hex
۵
CSS content
content: "\06F5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DB%B5
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

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Middle East scripts1,599 symbols

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Arabic1,210 symbols

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