What ๕ means
It writes the number five in Thai.
๕ has the same decimal value as 5. Earlier regional writing resembles the older script called Pallava in the ninth to eleventh centuries in the Buddhist Era. The earliest recognized monument at Sukhothai, an early Thai kingdom, is dated 1283; these dates place the wider writing tradition, not the first appearance of ๕.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1As of 2026, 555 in Thai chat echoes ห้า, the spoken word for five, as laughter.
Questions people ask
1Why does ๕ 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 ๕
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0E55, then Alt+X to get ๕.
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 “thai digit five”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0e55, then Enter or Space.
HTML
๕CSS
\0E55Kedmanee
Enable Thai input on a Kedmanee keyboard; press Shift+8 for ๕, while Shift+5 gives ๔.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
๕
HTML hex
๕
CSS content
content: "\0E55";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%B9%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.