U+0D74 "൴" Malayalam Fraction One Half Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0D74 "൴" Malayalam Fraction One Half is a typographic symbol from the Malayalam script used historically in the Kerala region of India to represent the fraction one half, specifically in traditional systems of measurement, land division, and accounting. It belongs to the Unicode block for Malayalam and is encoded in the "Malayalam Fractions and Signs" range, reflecting its specialized numerical usage. This character, which appears as a distinctive glyph resembling a stylized vertical pair of lines or dots, was employed in palm-leaf manuscripts and early printed texts before modern decimal notation became widespread. Although its use has declined in contemporary Malayalam writing, it remains part of the Unicode standard to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Malayalam language and its traditional arithmetic systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
൴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
൴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE0 0xB5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x0D74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00000D74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u0d74 |
Unicode Properties