U+1ECAD "ðž²" Indic Siyaq Fraction One Quarter Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž²
U+1ECAD "ðž²" Indic Siyaq Fraction One Quarter is a numerical symbol used in the Indic Siyaq number system, a historical script employed primarily in Persian and Arabic-influenced accounting and financial documents across the Indian subcontinent. This character represents the fractional value of one quarter, or 1/4, and belongs to a specialized set of signs that were used to denote quantities, weights, and measures in business records and legal manuscripts before the widespread adoption of modern decimal systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps preserve the typographic and historical significance of these regional numeric traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1ECAD |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Indic Siyaq Fraction One Quarter |
| Block | Indic Siyaq Numbers |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞲭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞲭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0xB2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83B 0xDCAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001ECAD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83b\udcad |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1/4 |
| 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 |