U+0D78 "൸" Malayalam Fraction Three Sixteenths Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
൸
U+0D78 "൸" Malayalam Fraction Three Sixteenths is a numeral symbol used in the traditional Malayalam script of Kerala, India, to represent the fractional value of three sixteenths. It belongs to the Malayalam block of Unicode and is part of a historic system of fractions that were employed in land measurements, trade, and accounting before the widespread adoption of decimal notation. This character reflects the rich mathematical heritage of the Malayalam language and is preserved in modern digital standards to support accurate representation of historical texts and cultural documents. Its usage today is primarily scholarly or archival, serving as a link to premodern computational practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D78 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Fraction Three Sixteenths |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d78 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 3/16 |
| 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 |