U+11FE8 "𑿨" Tamil Traditional Credit Sign Unicode Character

U+11FE8 "𑿨" Tamil Traditional Credit Sign is a numeric symbol used in historical Tamil accounting and financial records to represent the value of one "kāṇi," a traditional unit of measure in land and credit transactions. It belongs to the Tamil Supplement block, encoded for digital representation of classical Tamil scripts and practices. This sign specifically indicates a credit entry in ancient ledgers, where it would mark amounts owed or recorded as due, reflecting the systematic bookkeeping methods of pre colonial Tamil Nadu. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the linguistic and economic heritage of the Tamil language and its unique notational systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+11FE8
Version Added	12.0
Name	Tamil Traditional Credit Sign
Block	Tamil Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𑿨
HTML Hex Encoding	𑿨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x91 0xBF 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD807 0xDFE8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00011FE8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud807\udfe8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
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