U+1ECAA "𞲪" Indic Siyaq Number Prefixed Eight Unicode Character

U+1ECAA "𞲪" Indic Siyaq Number Prefixed Eight is a numeral symbol from the Indic Siyaq Numbers block, used historically in certain accounting and financial contexts within the Mughal Empire and other regions of South Asia. This specific character represents the number eight prefixed by a modifying mark, indicating that it is part of a system designed to prevent fraud in documents such as contracts and tax records by making numbers difficult to alter. The character is encoded for digital preservation of these historical scripts, and its graphical form combines a base eight with a prefix that denotes a specific contextual value, though its precise numerical interpretation depends on the accounting system in which it was employed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ECAA
Version Added	11.0
Name	Indic Siyaq Number Prefixed Eight
Block	Indic Siyaq Numbers
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞲪
HTML Hex Encoding	𞲪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB2 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDCAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001ECAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\udcaa

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	8
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