U+09F5 "৵" Bengali Currency Numerator Two Unicode Character

U+09F5 "৵" Bengali Currency Numerator Two is a specialized typographic glyph used within the Bengali script to represent the numerator "2" in old-style, subdivisional currency denominations, most notably the pre-decimalization system of the Indian rupee. It belongs to a set of unique fractional numerals that appear in historical financial manuscripts and printed documents to indicate amounts like two-sixteenths of an anna, functioning within a system of additive currency subunits that were common before decimalization. As part of the Bengali block in Unicode, this character serves as a crucial tool for digital preservation of archaic monetary records and texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+09F5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Bengali Currency Numerator Two
Block	Bengali
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	৵
HTML Hex Encoding	৵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE0 0xA7 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x09F5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000009F5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u09f5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	1/8
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Bengali
Script Extensions	Bengali
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other