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Counting Rod Numerals

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Counting Rod Numerals
RangeU+1D360..U+1D37F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsCounting Rod numbers
Assigned18 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.0 (2006)18 (+18)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Counting Rod Numerals is a Unicode block containing traditional Chinese counting rod symbols, which mathematicians used for calculation in ancient China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Block

Counting Rod Numerals[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1D36x 𝍠 𝍡 𝍢 𝍣 𝍤 𝍥 𝍦 𝍧 𝍨 𝍩 𝍪 𝍫 𝍬 𝍭 𝍮 𝍯
U+1D37x 𝍰 𝍱 𝍲 𝍳 𝍴 𝍵 𝍶 𝍷 𝍸
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Counting Rod Numerals block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.0 U+1D360..1D371 18 L2/04-227 N2816 Cullen, Christopher; Jenkins, John (2004-06-18), Proposal to add Chinese counting rod numerals to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
L2/04-156R2 Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "C.17.7", UTC #99 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.