What 𑱜 means
𑱜 is Bhaiksuki’s number sign for three. Bhaiksuki number notation has separate signs for units, tens, and hundreds, apart from ordinary decimal digits. Larger units come first in a compound number: 𑱣𑱜 is 13. Manuscripts stack those units vertically; plain text runs left to right unless the font arranges them vertically.
The Bhaiksuki script was used from the 10th–13th centuries, chiefly in Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions in eastern South Asia. In 1884, scholar Cecil Bendall encountered a 12th-century manuscript fragment, bringing Bhaiksuki into the modern scholarly record. Saindhavī is an older historical name for the script; Bhaiksuki and Arrow-headed are later scholarly labels. Bhaiksuki developed from Brahmi and is historically connected with Siddham, Śāradā, and Devanagari.
A historical numeral sign used to record quantities.
𑱜 and 𑱓 are different characters: only 𑱓 fills the ordinary digit-three slot.
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1Why does Bhaiksuki number three show as a box?
A missing-glyph box means the current font or app cannot render Bhaiksuki. Use one with Bhaiksuki coverage.
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𑱜\11C5CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.