U+11FC8 "𑿈" Tamil Fraction One Twentieth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑿈
U+11FC8 "𑿈" Tamil Fraction One Twentieth is a numeric symbol from the Tamil script block used historically to represent the fraction 1/20 in traditional Tamil accounting and measurement systems. This character, encoded in Unicode version 12.0, belongs to a set of granular fractional signs that facilitated precise calculations in land area, grain volume, and currency before the widespread adoption of decimal arithmetic. Its design reflects a distinct graphical form specific to the Tamil writing system, preserving an element of the region's mathematical heritage within modern digital text encoding standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11FC8 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Tamil Fraction One Twentieth |
| Block | Tamil Supplement |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑿈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑿈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xBF 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDFC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011FC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udfc8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/20 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Tamil |
| Script Extensions | Tamil |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |