What ۳ means
Each is a distinct written form for three.
These are regional shapes of the Hindu-Arabic decimal system, whose place-value method developed in India. By 662 CE, Syriac scholar Severus Sebokht described Indian calculation; al-Khwarizmi's work on Indian numerals is usually dated around 825 CE. Persian siāq, a bureaucratic shorthand for quantities, was separate.
This is the Persian-style form; matching a passage's digit set keeps the notation consistent.
In Persian text, use ۳ consistently; Arabic-style text uses ٣.
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Who writes ۳
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ۳ 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.
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3Digit Three
٣Arabic-Indic Digit Three
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ݹArabic Letter Waw With Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Three Above
ݻArabic Letter Yeh Barree With Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Three Above
۱Extended Arabic-Indic Digit One
۲Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Two
۴Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Four
֑Hebrew Accent Etnahta
֒Hebrew Accent Segol
֓Hebrew Accent Shalshelet
֔Hebrew Accent Zaqef Qatan
֕Hebrew Accent Zaqef GadolCollections with ۳
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How to type or find ۳
- Also called
- Persian 3 · Farsi 3
- Search it as
- Persian numerals · Farsi numerals · Dari digits · Urdu digits · Sindhi digits
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
۳\06F3Codes and encoding1 code points
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