What 𑜵 means
It marks the value five in Ahom writing. The oldest surviving Ahom text is the Snake Pillar inscription, from King Siuw Hum Miung’s reign (1497–1539). Ahom appears on inscriptions, coins, brass plates, and manuscripts.
Why does 𑜵 look like a word?
Ahom also wrote five as a word. Traditional Ahom number writing mixed numeral signs with number words written out, so this dedicated digit has a word-like shape.
Later, zero was added for decimal, base-ten numbers. Ahom is a Brahmic script linked with Mon-Burmese and Lik Tai writing traditions. An Ahom-Assamese-English dictionary published in 1920 marked the beginning of modern Ahom use.
In Ahom writing it is a numeral; elsewhere, it may read as an Ahom-script sample until context makes its number clear.
For an ordinary number, use 5.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 𑜵 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𑜵
𑜵\11735Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.