Extended Arabic Indic Digit Five

۵ (Extended Arabic Indic Digit Five) is a digit in Unicode’s Arabic block. Its code point is U+06F5, and it has been part of the standard since Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Select Copy symbol at the top of this page, then paste with Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux or ⌘+V on a Mac. On a phone, tap Copy symbol, then touch and hold where you want it and choose Paste. ۵ pastes as ordinary text, so it works in documents, messages, and code.

In Microsoft Word, type 06F5 and press Alt+X to turn the code into ۵. In any app, open Character Map from the Start menu, search for “extended arabic-indic digit five”, then select and copy the character.

Press Control+⌘+Space to open the Character Viewer, search for “extended arabic-indic digit five”, and double-click the result to insert it.

The simplest way is to copy it from this page and paste it where you need it. If you use it often, save it as a text shortcut: on iPhone, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement; with Gboard on Android, go to Gboard settings > Dictionary > Personal dictionary.

Yes. ۵ is a standard Unicode character, so you can paste it into Microsoft Word, Google Docs, emails, and posts or bios on Instagram, X, Facebook, and TikTok. In Google Docs you can also choose Insert > Special characters and search for “extended arabic-indic digit five”. In Word, choose Insert > Symbol > More Symbols, set from to Unicode (hex), and enter 06F5 as the character code.

No. ۵ is a text symbol, not an emoji. It takes the color and size of the surrounding text, and its exact shape depends on the font.

An empty box or a question mark means the font on that device has no glyph for ۵. The character is still there: it appears correctly wherever a font covers Unicode’s Arabic block, and free font families such as Google Noto cover nearly all of Unicode.

In HTML, write ۵ (decimal) or ۵ (hexadecimal). In CSS, use content: "\6F5"; in a ::before or ::after rule, and in JavaScript "\u06F5". See all HTML codes.