U+3038 · Letter number
Hangzhou Numeral Ten Symbol 〸
〸 is hangzhou numeral ten, U+3038. Unicode records it as a compatibility form of 十 (compat form). It was added in Unicode 3.0, and Unicode files it under Letter number.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+3038 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 〸 | |
| HTML decimal | 〸 | |
| CSS | \3038 | |
| JavaScript | \u{3038} | |
| Python | \U00003038 | |
| Java / C# | \u3038 | |
| Rust | \u{3038} | |
| Swift | \u{3038} | |
| PHP | \u{3038} | |
| URL encoded | %E3%80%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 80 B8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 3038 | |
| Base64 | 44C4 | |
| Decimal | 12344 | |
| Decomposes to | 十 (compat form) | |
| Numeric value | 10 | |
| Category | Letter number (Nl) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 3.0 | |
Will 〸 survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites 〸 as
十. Safe for display, not for storage. - Legacy encodings. 〸 is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Other ten characters
Unicode names 8 characters ending in “ten”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.
Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation
The punctuation Chinese, Japanese and Korean typography needs — the ideographic full stop and comma, corner brackets, the iteration mark, and the wave dash.
How to type 〸
| Windows | Type 3038 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “hangzhou numeral ten” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 3038, press Enter |
| HTML | 〸 |
About Unicode’s Letter number category
This is a letter number: a character that looks like a letter but carries a numeric value, the way Roman numerals do.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the 〸 hangzhou numeral ten symbol?
- On Windows, type 3038 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 3038. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for 〸?
- Hangzhou Numeral Ten is U+3038. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- Will 〸 survive being pasted anywhere?
- Not always. Hangzhou Numeral Ten is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with 十. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.