U+A834 "꠴" North Indic Fraction One Eighth Unicode Character

U+A834 "꠴" North Indic Fraction One Eighth is a typographic symbol used in the Syloti Nagri script, primarily for writing the Sylheti language in the northeastern Indian subcontinent, to represent the fractional value of one eighth. Belonging to the Syloti Nagri block within Unicode, this character is part of a system of indigenous numerical fractions that were historically employed in land measurement, accounting, and commerce in the Sylhet region. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this traditional notation can be accurately preserved and digitally represented in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+A834
Version Added	5.2
Name	North Indic Fraction One Eighth
Block	Common Indic Number Forms
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	꠴
HTML Hex Encoding	꠴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xA0 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xA834
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000A834
C/C++/Java Escape	\ua834

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	1/8
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