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lao digit six

Lao Digit Six

The Lao 6 is ໖, the numeral for six. In longer numbers, its position changes its place value.

Text symbol
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໖ · Lao digits · Lao numbers · Lao numerals · Lao keyboard
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ໖ means

On its own, it means six.

In a Lao numeral, position sets place value: ໑໖ means sixteen; ໖໐ means sixty.

Modern Lao writing took shape after small Lao kingdoms united in the 14th century. Lan Xang, the new kingdom, commissioned scholars to devise a script, probably modeled on Old Khmer, itself based on Mon scripts. Related Tham script traditions were used for religious writing in the region. A bilingual Tham inscription dates to 1376; a Tham Lao manuscript in Pali, a language used in Buddhist texts, dates to 1520. These dates belong to script traditions, not to ໖. Lao palm-leaf manuscripts could number leaves with consonants paired with short or long vowels instead of ordinary digits.

Don't confuse it with

2
6
Digit Six
ASCII 6 and Lao ໖ share the same numeric value but are separate characters; searches and stored text can distinguish them.
๖
Thai Digit Six
Thai ๖ is the Thai digit six. It resembles Lao ໖; nearby letters can show which script a passage uses.

Combination ideas

2
sixteen
sixty

Questions people ask

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Why does ໖ 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.

How to type ໖

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0ED6, then Alt+X to get ໖.
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 “lao digit six”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0ed6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
໖
CSS
\0ED6
Lao input
For ໖ on a Lao keyboard, choose a Lao input layout or character picker; key placement varies between layouts.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
໖
HTML hex
໖
CSS content
content: "\0ED6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%BB%96
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.

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