What 𞱸 means
It marks the unit value eight in Indic Siyaq.
Siyaq shortened Arabic number-words. In South Asia it is also called raqm or rakam, Arabic for “account.” Indic signs for higher orders also draw on South Asian number-words; amounts combine units, tens and larger orders.
Why is it in old accounts?
It was compact shorthand, mainly readable to trained clerks.
The wider system grew among scribes in early Islamic government offices; its earliest surviving evidence is a Baghdad account from 918–919. Indic Siyaq was common in the Mughal empire by the 17th century and remained in use into the mid-20th century. Merchants, landholders and irrigation officials also used it.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞱸 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.
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How to type or find 𞱸
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- siyaq · raqm · rakam · siyaq eight · ledger numeral · Mughal numeral
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𞱸\1EC78Codes and encoding1 code points
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