Indic Siyaq Fraction One Half

𞲮 means one half in Indic Siyaq, a historical South Asian accounting notation. Its quarter and three-quarter counterparts belong to the same fraction set.

Text symbol

What 𞲮 means

It marks one half in Indic Siyaq notation.

Indic Siyaq is South Asia's branch of a historical accounting number system.

The wider system began as state-accounting shorthand: scribes shortened Arabic number words into stylized signs, hard for untrained readers to decipher.

Its earliest surviving evidence is from accounts of the early 10th century. Siyaq later served government, trade and landholding across Persian-influenced regions; Indic Siyaq was in use under the Mughals by the 17th century and into the mid-20th century.

Can I use 𞲮 instead of ½?

Only when reproducing Indic Siyaq.

It marks half within a Siyaq account amount; use ½ or 1/2 for an ordinary fraction.

Don't confuse it with

Full Stop

Unicode groups this Siyaq fraction sign with the full stop. It is a Siyaq fraction mark, not punctuation; plain-text dots can stand in for it.

Arabic-Indic Digit Zero

Unicode groups it with this Siyaq fraction sign by skeleton. It is the Arabic-Indic digit zero, a different numeral system used in Arabic text.

．

Fullwidth Full Stop

A fullwidth period used in CJK text, often typed by input methods instead of a plain dot.

Questions people ask

Why does 𞲮 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.