HANGZHOU NUMERAL ONE·U+3021

Character Information

Code Point
U+3021
HEX
3021
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Letter Number

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E3 80 A1
11100011 10000000 10100001
UTF16 (big Endian)
30 21
00110000 00100001
UTF16 (little Endian)
21 30
00100001 00110000
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 30 21
00000000 00000000 00110000 00100001
UTF32 (little Endian)
21 30 00 00
00100001 00110000 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
〡
URI Encoded
%E3%80%A1

Description

The Unicode character U+3021, known as Hangzhou Numeral One, is a unique symbol used predominantly in the Chinese language. It holds significant importance in digital text and typography, particularly for those familiar with regional numerals from the Hangzhou dialect. In this context, it represents the number one (1) in the Hangzhou numeral system, which was historically used by the local population of Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province in Eastern China. Although not as widely recognized as the standard Arabic numerals, the Hangzhou numerals still hold a special cultural and historical value for certain communities. These numerals are often used in artistic expressions, traditional Chinese typography, and as decorative elements in calligraphy, providing an insight into ancient Chinese numeral systems and their regional variations. In terms of its technical context, U+3021 is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs extension, which includes over 20,000 characters commonly used in various East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 12321 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+3021. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+3021 to binary: 00110000 00100001. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100011 10000000 10100001