U+10A42 "𐩂" Kharoshthi Digit Three Unicode Character

U+10A42 "𐩂" Kharoshthi Digit Three is a numeral from the ancient Kharoshthi script, which was used from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE in regions of modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to write languages like Gandhari and Prakrit. This character specifically represents the numeric value three, forming part of a base-10 numeric system that, like many ancient scripts, used distinct symbols for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. The Kharoshthi script was written from right to left, and its numerals often appear in inscriptions on coins, manuscripts, and stone carvings, such as those from the Gandharan Buddhist tradition. Modern digital encoding of this character in Unicode allows for its accurate representation and study in electronic texts and scholarly work, preserving an important piece of historical numeral notation.