What 𞲌 means
One thousand.
Also called raqm or rakam (“account”), Indic siyaq compresses Arabic number words into bookkeeping signs.
The wider siyaq system appears in surviving accounts from the early 10th century. The Indian form is documented in common Mughal use by the 17th century and remained in use into the middle of the 20th century. This sign appears on a Hyderabad State 1,000-rupee note from the 1940s.
How does siyaq arrange a number?
Larger values appear first, ordered right-to-left.
Familiar Arabic-Indic digits run left-to-right. Northern and Deccani (southern Indian) styles vary in some thousands; Deccani uses 𞲌 as the thousand marker with a separate unit number.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞲌 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 𞲌
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- raqm · rakam · siyaq · 1,000
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𞲌\1EC8CCodes and encoding1 code points
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