What 𞱿 means
It represents sixty. The wider Siyaq system was bookkeeping shorthand for government clerks; its compact, cursive forms were difficult for untrained readers. It improved on abjad, an older method in which alphabet letters also stood for numbers, which was awkward for large amounts.
The earliest surviving Siyaq financial records date to 918–919 in Baghdad, prepared for the city's Abbasid ruler, al-Moqtader. The Indic branch adapted higher number ranks to South Asian terms: lakh (100,000) and crore (10,000,000). Indic Siyaq appears in Mughal-era accounts by the 17th century and remained in use until the middle of the 20th century.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞱿 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.
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How to type or find 𞱿
- Search it as
- siyaq · siyāq · siyaq number · siyaq numeral · raqm · rakam · sixty symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𞱿\1EC7FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.