U+0D77 "൷" Malayalam Fraction One Eighth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
൷
U+0D77 "൷" Malayalam Fraction One Eighth is a numeric symbol used in the traditional Malayalam script of South India to represent the fraction 1/8. It belongs to the Malayalam block of Unicode and is part of a historical system of fractions that were employed for measurements, trade, and land records, particularly in the Kerala region. This character is distinct from the common Arabic numeral representation and reflects the unique typographic heritage of Malayalam, where such fractions were written as single glyphs rather than as combinations of numbers and slashes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D77 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Fraction One Eighth |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d77 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/8 |
| 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 |