Roman Numeral Five
Part of Math Symbols
Roman Numeral Five has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- Ⅴ
- Unicode
- U+2164
About this symbol
Ⅴ is the Roman numeral five. A popular explanation sees it as the outline of an open hand, with Ⅹ, ten, as two hands joined at the wrists. Unicode keeps it as its own character for East Asian typesetting; in ordinary text the letter V does the same job.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE
- Type
- Letter used as a number
- Unicode block
- Number Forms
- Unicode group
- Roman numerals
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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