U+0D76 "൶" Malayalam Fraction One Sixteenth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
൶
U+0D76 "൶" Malayalam Fraction One Sixteenth is a numeral symbol used in the Malayalam script of South India to represent the fractional value of one sixteenth. It is part of a specialized set of ancient and medieval Malayalam fractional signs developed for precise measurements in commerce, land division, and traditional recipes, where such small fractions were essential. As a character in the Unicode standard, it preserves a unique aspect of the linguistic and mathematical heritage of the Malayalam language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D76 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Fraction One Sixteenth |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d76 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/16 |
| 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 |