Counting Rod Numerals (Unicode block)

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. It also contains tally marks.

Counting Rod Numerals
RangeU+1D360..U+1D37F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsCounting Rod numbers
Assigned25 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.018 (+18)
11.025 (+7)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Counting Rod Numerals[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1D36x ๐  ๐ก ๐ข ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ง ๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ช ๐ซ ๐ฌ ๐ญ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ
U+1D37x ๐ฐ ๐ฑ ๐ฒ ๐ณ ๐ด ๐ต ๐ถ ๐ท ๐ธ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.0U+1D360..1D37118L2/04-227N2816Cullen, Christopher; Jenkins, John (2004-06-18), Proposal to add Chinese counting rod numerals to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
L2/04-156R2Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "Chinese counting rod numerals (C.17.7)", UTC #99 Minutes
11.0U+1D372..1D3765L2/15-328Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2015-11-30), Proposal to encode tally marks
L2/16-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu (2016-01-22), "17. Tally marks", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-046Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-01-27), Proposal to encode five ideographic tally marks
L2/16-004Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "E.2", UTC #146 Minutes
U+1D377..1D3782L2/15-328Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2015-11-30), Proposal to encode tally marks
L2/16-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu (2016-01-22), "17. Tally marks", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-065Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-03-14), Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks
L2/16-156Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu (2016-05-06), "15. Tally Marks", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-121Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "E.7", UTC #147 Minutes
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "C.2.1", UTC #153 Minutes
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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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.
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