What means
Its current form reflects several revisions to earlier writing.
The script's history goes back to Sumhung Lipi, which Tika Ram Rai devised in the 1920s for Sumhung, a religious Rai book. Kripasalyan Rai reintroduced it in 1969; a 2000 redesign adjusted the script for Bantawa spelling, sounds, and printing.
A 2015 study says Rai number words were widely used before dedicated numerals; it describes the ten-symbol set as decimal, positional, and influenced by Brahmi, an early South Asian writing system. A 2022 Unicode proposal documents the script in Bantawa primers, newspapers, literature, and Sikkim assembly proceedings translated into Bantawa.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 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
- Search it as
- bantawa numbers · kirat rai numerals · khambu rai · rai numeral · krai digit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𖵲\16D72Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.