What ꧕ means
Five. Javanese has its own digits (wilangan); this is its five, used in dates and counts.
An Indonesian study dates related Sriwijaya-era numerals to the 680s Saka era, the year-count of early island inscriptions; a palaeographic survey puts the earliest certain Javanese numeral at 841 CE.
The value stayed five while the shape travelled: Brahmi → South India's Pallava tradition → Kawi → Javanese.
Harmless inside Javanese writing; meaningless by itself elsewhere.
Writing for everyone? Add plain 5.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Javanese 51, bracketed by pada marks in running text.
Questions people ask
1why does ꧕ show as a box?
A font gap — the font lacks Javanese; a Javanese-capable font fixes it.
How to type ꧕
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A9D5, then Alt+X to get ꧕.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “javanese digit five”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a9d5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꧕CSS
\A9D5Java Kongres keyboard
Press number-row 5 on the Javanese layout.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꧕
HTML hex
꧕
CSS content
content: "\A9D5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A7%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.