U+0B77 "୷" Oriya Fraction Three Sixteenths Unicode Character

U+0B77 "୷" Oriya Fraction Three Sixteenths is a numeric symbol used in the Oriya script to represent the fraction 3/16, primarily in historical or traditional contexts for measurements, weights, and monetary calculations within Odia language communities. It belongs to the Oriya block of Unicode, which encodes characters from the Odia writing system of eastern India, and serves as a specialized glyph for precise fractional notation, distinct from the more common decimal or standard numeral representations. While its usage has declined in modern digital and everyday contexts, it remains a part of the Unicode standard to preserve the typographic heritage and script-specific numeric conventions of the Odia language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0B77
Version Added	6.0
Name	Oriya Fraction Three Sixteenths
Block	Oriya
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	୷
HTML Hex Encoding	୷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE0 0xAD 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0B77
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000B77
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0b77

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	3/16
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Oriya
Script Extensions	Oriya
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other