How do I type the 〹 hangzhou numeral twenty symbol?

On Windows, type 3039 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 3039. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for 〹?

Hangzhou Numeral Twenty is U+3039. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

Will 〹 survive being pasted anywhere?

Not always. Hangzhou Numeral Twenty is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with 卄. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.

U+3039 · Letter number

Hangzhou Numeral Twenty Symbol 〹

〹 is hangzhou numeral twenty, and Unicode gives it the numeric value 20. It was added in Unicode 3.0, and Unicode files it under Letter number.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+3039`
HTML hex	`〹`
HTML decimal	`〹`
CSS	`\3039`
JavaScript	`\u{3039}`
Python	`\U00003039`
Java / C#	`\u3039`
Rust	`\u{3039}`
Swift	`\u{3039}`
PHP	`\u{3039}`
URL encoded	`%E3%80%B9`
UTF-8 bytes	`E3 80 B9`
UTF-16 bytes	`3039`
Base64	`44C5`
Decimal	`12345`
Decomposes to	卄 (compat form)
Numeric value	20
Category	Letter number (Nl)
Introduced	Unicode 3.0

Will 〹 survive being pasted?

Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites 〹 as 卄. Safe for display, not for storage.
Legacy encodings. 〹 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.

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.

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How to type 〹

Windows	Type `3039` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “hangzhou numeral twenty”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `3039`, press `Enter`
HTML	`〹`

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 〹 hangzhou numeral twenty symbol?: On Windows, type 3039 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 3039. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for 〹?: Hangzhou Numeral Twenty is U+3039. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
Will 〹 survive being pasted anywhere?: Not always. Hangzhou Numeral Twenty is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with 卄. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.