U+A831 "꠱" North Indic Fraction One Half Unicode Character

U+A831 "꠱" North Indic Fraction One Half is a typographic symbol used in early modern and medieval manuscripts from the northern Indian subcontinent to represent the fraction one half. It belongs to the North Indic fractions block, which was encoded to support a range of historical fraction signs found in scripts such as Siddham, Sharada, and other Brahmi-derived writing systems used before the widespread adoption of decimal place value notation. This specific character, shaped like a stylized curving line with a dot, served as a concise notation for halving quantities in texts dealing with measures, currencies, or astronomical calculations. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars accurately digitize and study ancient manuscripts that relied on these specialized numeral systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A831
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Fraction One Half
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠱
HTML Hex Encoding	꠱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA831
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A831
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua831

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	1/2
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