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How to represent tally/five-bar-gate in unicode?

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semantics

numbers

character-encoding

unicode

accessibility

Are there Unicode characters to represent bundles (and partial bundles) of 5 in the style of the tally/five-bar-gate?

If not, what would be the most standard/semantic/accessible solution to this problem?

Things I've tried but don't like:

  • Using the numbers 1-5 - easily confusing (3 bundles of 5 looks like 555)
  • 1-4 pipes with strike-through for '5' - semantically messy, strike-through not reliably portable
  • Ogham letter Straif for '5' - non-contiguous/not-associated with representations of 1-4 (all Ogham characters contain the horizontal line)
  • Images with a descriptive alt tag - only works for the web, verbose for text-only browsers/screen readers.

References:

  • Wikipedia's page on tally notation shows nice Asian and Latin American systems. My audience is mostly European, but a method in these styles would be acceptable if the five-bar-gate is not possible.

Thanks a lot!

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Ian Mackinnon Avatar asked Aug 24 '10 14:08

Ian Mackinnon

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1 Answers

You could use 卌 U+534C (in fact, it's a Chinese symbol for 40)

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tom Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 22:10

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