U+0D73 "൳" Malayalam Fraction One Quarter Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0D73 "൳" Malayalam Fraction One Quarter is a numeric symbol used in the traditional Malayalam numeral system of Kerala, India, representing the fraction one quarter. In the historical accounting and measurement systems of the region, this character was employed alongside other fraction signs to denote portions of goods, land, or currency, particularly in contexts such as trade, taxation, and agricultural records. While modern decimal notation has largely replaced these symbols in everyday use, U+0D73 remains encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve the script's historical and cultural significance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D73 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Fraction One Quarter |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d73 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/4 |
| 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 |