Digit Nine
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 57 on the numeric keypad to insert digit nine.
- Alt code
- Alt+57
- HTML entity
- 9
- Unicode
- U+0039
About this symbol
In Japanese, ku, one way of saying nine, sounds like the word for suffering, so nine is avoided much as four is: some hospitals and hotels have no room 9. In China, by contrast, nine sounds like the word for long-lasting and is a lucky number.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DIGIT NINE
- Type
- Digit
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII digits
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.