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Text style
Emoji style
7︎
7️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ७ ( 7 ) ). See 7 § Evolution of the Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
7 (prev 6 , next 8 )
The cardinal number seven .
A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal , and hexadecimal .
( music , superscript) an indicator that a chord is a dominant or major seventh chord
( phonetics , Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 7, typically identified with dark entering yin ru (陰入 )
Synonym: ꜆
Gallery
Letter styles
Lining digit 7 .
Oldstyle
7 in
Fraktur script.
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
See also
Other representations of 7:
English
Noun
7 (plural 7s )
( sports , snowboarding , skiing , skateboarding ) Clipping of 720 . ( 720° spin )
See also
Chinese
Etymology
From 七 ( cat1 , “ seven ” ) , a near homophone of 𨳍 ( cat6 , “ stupid; dumb ” ) in Cantonese .
Pronunciation
Noun
7
( Cantonese , slang , vulgar , leetspeak ) Alternative form of 𨳍 ( cat6 ) .
Adjective
7
( Cantonese , slang , vulgar , leetspeak ) Alternative form of 𨳍 ( cat6 ) .
7 head [Cantonese ] ― se1 fan4-1 het1 ― dickhead
Verb
7
( Cantonese , slang , vulgar , leetspeak ) Alternative form of 𨳍 ( cat6 ) .
Squamish
Road sign in British Columbia showing the use of 7 to represent ʔ.
Pronunciation
Letter
7
The forty-first letter of the Squamish alphabet , written in the Latin script .
See also
( Latin-script letters) A a (Á á ), B b , Ch ch , Chʼ chʼ , E e (É é ), H h , I i (Í í ), K k , Kʼ kʼ , Kw kw , Kwʼ kwʼ , Ḵ ḵ , Ḵʼ ḵʼ , Ḵw ḵw , Ḵwʼ ḵwʼ , L l , Lʼ lʼ , Lh lh , M m , Mʼ mʼ , N n , Nʼ nʼ , P p , Pʼ pʼ , S s , Sh sh , T t , Tʼ tʼ , Tlʼ tlʼ , Ts ts , Tsʼ tsʼ , U u (Ú ú ), W w , Wʼ wʼ , X x , Xw xw , X̱ x̱ , X̱w x̱w , Y y , Yʼ yʼ , 7