Digit four

Digit four Emoji

Symbols

A straightforward, bold representation of the Arabic numeral four. This character is designed to appear as plain text, matching the typeface and weight of the surrounding sentences in any given document or chat.

Usage Context

This is the primary way to express the quantity of four in digital communications. It is frequently used for dates, times, prices, or sports scores. Because it lacks the enclosure found in 4⃣, it is treated as a standard character by most software, making it better for math equations or long-form writing.

History

As a fundamental digit, the number four has been part of the Unicode standard since its very first version. It stems from the legacy of ASCII and character encoding systems that mapped the common set of 0–9 numerals to standard byte values for early computer processing.

Details

Glyph
4
Unicode
U+0034
Shortcode
:emoji_u0034:
HTML Entity
4

Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory alphanum
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Tags
4fourdigitnumbermathintegercountquantitynumerictext

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