U+10A42 "𐩂" Kharoshthi Digit Three Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐩂

U+10A42 "𐩂" Kharoshthi Digit Three is a numeral from the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was used from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE in regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to write languages like Gandhari and Prakrit. This character specifically represents the numeric value three, forming part of a base-10 numeric system that, like many ancient scripts, used distinct symbols for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. The Kharoshthi script was written from right to left, and its numerals often appear in inscriptions on coins, manuscripts, and stone carvings, such as those from the Gandharan Buddhist tradition. Modern digital encoding of this character in Unicode allows for its accurate representation and study in electronic texts and scholarly work, preserving an important piece of historical numeral notation.

General Properties

Code Point U+10A42
Version Added 4.1
Name Kharoshthi Digit Three
Block Kharoshthi
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐩂
HTML Hex Encoding 𐩂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA9 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDE42
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010A42
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\ude42

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Digital
Numeric Value 3
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Kharoshthi
Script Extensions Kharoshthi
Indic Syllabic Category Number
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other