It is important to note that almost all displays have a circular emitting area at the bottom right, commonly referred to as the DP Point, which is commonly used as a decimal point (Decimal Separator/Decimal Mark), and some are used as a thousand-bit separator symbol. These displays were originally named after a single character, how many emitting areas (also known as segments, or sections, Segments), so a seven-segment display (7-Segment Display) represents seven emitting areas on one character Fourteen-segment displays (14-Segment Display) and sixteen-segment displays (16-Segment Display) are named in the same way. Why are they called seven-segment displays, fourteen-segment displays, and sixteen-segment displays? This article will focus on seven-segment displays, fourteen-segment displays & sixteen-segment displays that display numbers and English, dot matrix display will be discussed in a different article. In addition to these two, dot matrix displays can use the light and darkness of the dots to display pixelated (Pixel Art) patterns, and pixelated Arabic numerals and English letters are of course fine. The most common LED display for displaying Arabic numerals is a 7-segment display, while a 16-segment display can display both Arabic numerals and upper and lower case English letters and this article describe more detail about 7-segment / 16-segment display information. Which LED displays can be used to display Arabic numerals and English letters?

Internal structure of the sixteen-segment display – take the OPD-AS5010 (1) LR as an example.

Seven-segment display and internal structure – take OPS-S5620 (1) SB as example:.

The internal structure of seven-segment displays, fourteen-segment displays and sixteen-segment displays.

The nickname of a fourteen-segment display and a sixteen-segment display.

The nickname for a seven-segment display.

A nickname for a seven-segment display, a fourteen-segment display, and a sixteen-segment display.

Why are they called seven-segment displays, fourteen-segment displays, and sixteen-segment displays?.

Which LED displays can be used to display Arabic numerals and English letters?.

Sixteen segment display font