U+A830 "꠰" North Indic Fraction One Quarter Unicode Character

U+A830 "꠰" North Indic Fraction One Quarter is a numeric symbol used in historical and traditional script systems of the Indian subcontinent, specifically within the context of the Syloti Nagri script, where it represents the fractional value of one quarter. This character is part of a larger block dedicated to North Indic fractions, which were employed in pre-modern manuscript traditions and accounting practices to denote precise portions of a whole, often appearing in texts dealing with weights, measures, or monetary calculations. As a specialized glyph, it is now mainly of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and digital typography, as it ensures accurate representation of these archaic numerical forms in modern Unicode encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A830
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Fraction One Quarter
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠰
HTML Hex Encoding	꠰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA830
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A830
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua830

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	Devanagari Dogra Gujarati Gurmukhi Khojki Kannada Kaithi Mahajani Malayalam Modi Nandinagari Sharada Khudawadi Takri Tirhuta Tulu Tigalari
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other