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𝍵

ideographic tally mark four

Ideographic Tally Mark Four

𝍵 is the fourth count in an East Asian tally system built from successive strokes of 正, the Chinese character for “correct.” Tally groups record counts or scores in fives. An early printed example appears in a Japanese statistics book published in 1895.

Text symbol

What 𝍵 means

No; this is a tally mark, not a place-value digit.

Counting-rod numerals are a separate arithmetic notation: short rods were arranged on a gridded board, and position supplied each digit’s place value. The tally practice is called 正の字 (sei-no-ji) in Japanese and 正字 (zhèng zì) in Chinese.

Part of the collection

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Ancient Number Systems

Combination ideas

Nine tally counts: one completed group of five plus four.

Questions people ask

Why does 𝍵 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 or find 𝍵

Search it as: tally · tally mark · count mark · 正の字 · 正字 · sei-no-ji · zheng-zi
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1D375, then AltX to get 𝍵.

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 “ideographic tally mark four”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d375, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𝍵

CSS

\1D375

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𝍵

HTML hex

𝍵

CSS content

content: "\1D375";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9D%8D%B5

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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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