Indic Siyaq Number Eighty

It represents eighty.

In South Asia, the system was known as raqm or rakam, from an Arabic word meaning “account.” Indic Siyaq appears in Arabic-script records, including Urdu and Persian contexts. It was in common use under the Mughals by the 17th century and remained in use into the mid-20th. The wider Siyaq tradition likely emerged under early Islamic Umayyad rule (around 656–751); the earliest surviving Siyaq accounts from Baghdad date to 918–919. It also served Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, and Uzbek administrations.

Siyaq signs stylize number names: Indic forms use Arabic names for smaller values and South Asian words for larger ones. Unlike abjad, which assigns number values to letters, Siyaq uses dedicated number signs. In a sequence, values add; signs run right to left, usually largest first. Account keepers learned this shorthand, and some records paired it with Indian numerals to deter falsification.