Indic Siyaq Lakh Mark

𞲠 marks a number in lakhs in Indic Siyaq, scaling the preceding value by 100,000. This notation served South Asian and Persian-language account books. Indian records preserve northern and Deccani spelling styles for large units.

Text symbol

What 𞲠 means

It scales the preceding numeral by one lakh. One lakh is 100,000; ten followed by this mark reads ten lakh, or one million.

It began as an accounting shorthand

The wider Siyaq system grew from stylized Arabic number words in early Islamic government. Its earliest surviving examples are Baghdad financial accounts dated 918–19. Officials, merchants and land-revenue clerks used it; its shorthand could hide sums from unauthorized readers.

Indic Siyaq added Indic words for large units. Its arrival in India is hard to date; by the 17th century it was common under the Mughals and remained in use into the mid-20th century.

Part of the collection

𝋧

Ancient Number Systems

Combination ideas

Ten lakh, or one million, in one Indic Siyaq style.

Questions people ask

Why does 𞲠 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Indic Siyaq Numbers block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.