What ৻ means
It marks ganda amounts.
It precedes Bengali digits: ৻১ is one ganda. A 2007 Unicode proposal records 20 gandas per anna, a rupee subdivision, and four cowrie shells per ganda. Bengal used separate rupee, ganda and anna-fraction signs; northern India used one mark.
A stone inscription from Mahasthan, from the 3rd century BCE, records related gandaka. Chatterji’s Bengali grammar prints the mark in 1927. India replaced anna and ganda with decimal paise, smaller rupee units, on April 1, 1957.
Historical Bengali currency notation.
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Questions people ask
1Is ৻ still used?
No. India replaced anna and ganda with decimal paise in 1957.
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How to type or find ৻
- Also called
- gonda
- Search it as
- anna · rupee · cowrie · paisa
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\09FBPramukhIME
How to type Bengali ganda mark: PramukhIME maps
G_1 to ৻১ and G_2 to ৻২.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
৻
HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\09FB";
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URL encoded
%E0%A7%BB
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On screen
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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