What 〧 means
It records seven in merchant notation. Traders used the marks to note amounts quickly.
An early related mark for seven appears in the Dunhuang mathematics fragment P.3349, associated with the Tang–Five Dynasties period; it does not establish that this exact commercial form existed then. The commercial set is linked to Song dynasty counting-rod notation, a Chinese way to write numbers with rods. Suzhou numerals also appear in Hainan records from the late Qing and Republican era.
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How to type or find 〧
- Also called
- Suzhou numeral seven · Suzhou numerals · huama
- Search it as
- commercial numerals · grass numerals
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\3027How to type 〧
Unicode 17.0 keeps the Hangzhou label; a character picker may list it as “HANGZHOU NUMERAL SEVEN.” The set is described as Suzhou-style numerals.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
〧
HTML hex
〧
CSS content
content: "\3027";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%80%A7
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.