What 𐩂 means
It marks a count of three.
Kharoshthi wrote Gandhari and Sanskrit around Gandhara (modern northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan). It appears fully developed in Ashokan inscriptions around 250 BCE. Its exact origin is unclear, though the script was almost certainly related to Aramaic.
In the Kharoshthi number system, numerals ran right to left; signs could be added or multiplied. There was no zero or separate sign for five through nine. The script remained in Gandhara until around the third century CE; it later served official records and inscriptions in Khotan and Niya in the third and fourth centuries CE, and survived farther east until the seventh century.
Unicode's reference shape is based on first-century CE manuscripts, so an individual inscription may look different.
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Who writes 𐩂
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐩂 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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- Kharosthi 3 · Gandhari numerals · Kharoshthi numerals
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐩂\10A42Codes and encoding1 code points
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