U+A833 "꠳" North Indic Fraction One Sixteenth Unicode Character

U+A833 "꠳" North Indic Fraction One Sixteenth is a specialized typographic symbol from the Syloti Nagri script block, used primarily in the historical and traditional numerical systems of the Sylhet region in South Asia. It represents the fraction one sixteenth, reflecting a base sixteen or subdivisional counting system common in pre colonial and early modern trade and measurement across the Indian subcontinent. This character is distinct from decimal fractions and is encoded separately from standard digits to allow for accurate representation of indigenous arithmetic in digital text, particularly in manuscripts and legal documents where precise fractional values were required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A833
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Fraction One Sixteenth
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠳
HTML Hex Encoding	꠳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA833
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A833
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua833

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	1/16
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Devanagari Dogra Gujarati Gurmukhi Khojki Kannada Kaithi Mahajani 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