U+1CE38 "𜸸" Large Type Piece Diagonal Upper Left and Lower Left Unicode Character

U+1CE38 "𜸸" Large Type Piece Diagonal Upper Left and Lower Left is a symbol belonging to the Unicode Standard's Indic Siyaq Numbers block, which is used to represent numerical values in historical and cryptographic contexts derived from South Asian accounting traditions. Specifically, this character is part of a set of type pieces or numeral fragments that were employed in the Siyaq numeral system, a method of writing numbers in Persian and Indian manuscripts where symbols are often combined or arranged diagonally. The name "Diagonal Upper Left and Lower Left" indicates that this glyph depicts the upper left and lower left portions of a larger numeral piece, likely used as a component in the construction of multi-digit numbers within a stacked or diagonal layout.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CE38
Version Added	16.0
Name	Large Type Piece Diagonal Upper Left and Lower Left
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing 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 0x9C 0xB8 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDE38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CE38
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\ude38

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	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other