What 〸 means
Ten in the Suzhou numerals.
Huama, written 花码 in Chinese, grew from counting-rod numerals: small rods arranged on a board to show quantities. Its use in trade is traced from the Song dynasty to the early 20th century. In commercial records, the accompanying unit helps identify the amount represented by a numeral string. Unicode 17.0 says it cannot trace the “Hangzhou” label; historical references call the set Suzhou numerals.
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Who writes 〸
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 〸 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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How to type or find 〸
- Also called
- 蘇州碼子 · 苏州码子 · 花码
- Search it as
- suzhou numerals · suzhoumazi · huama · caoma · commercial numerals
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
〸CSS
\3038Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
〸
HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\3038";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%80%B8
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On screen
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Code points
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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.