Brahmi Digit Three

It is the Brahmi digit for three.

The Brahmi digit 3 belongs to the later positional decimal system; earlier Brahmi number signs used a non-positional system. Brahmi numerals are attested from the third century BCE, including in cave inscriptions and on coins.

Why does 𑁩 look different?

Regional and historical Brahmi forms can look different across fonts.

Regional and period styles, along with writing tools, changed Brahmi forms. Unicode represents this variation at the font level, so the displayed outline depends on the font. Brahmi was used to write ancient Prakrit languages, Tamil, and Sanskrit, and influenced scripts across Central and Southeast Asia. Later forms called Gupta and Nagari link this history to South Asian numeral traditions.