U+0D5B "൛" Malayalam Fraction One Twentieth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
൛
U+0D5B "൛" Malayalam Fraction One Twentieth is a numeric symbol from the Malayalam script used traditionally to denote the fraction one twentieth, integral to the historical system of Malayalam fractional measurements for units of land, grain, or time. This character forms part of the Unicode block for Malayalam, specifically in the range of ancient numerical and fractional signs that facilitate the digital representation of classical Kerala mathematics and accounting practices. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that legacy documents and manuscripts using this precise fraction can be accurately digitized and preserved for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D5B |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Fraction One Twentieth |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d5b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/20 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Malayalam |
| Script Extensions | Malayalam |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |