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᥉

limbu digit three

Limbu digit three

᥉ is the Limbu numeral for three; the Limbu word is written in Latin letters as sumsi. The oldest known Limbu writings were collected in Darjeeling in the 1850s, while the modern script began developing in 1925.

Text symbol
Search it as
sirijanga · yakthung · sumsi
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ᥉ means

It is the Limbu numeral for three.

That value stays three across handwritten and modern forms, though fonts can draw the glyph differently or omit it. The script was revived for Limbu books, schooling, newspapers, and ritual texts.

Traditional accounts credit Sirijanga Hang with the script's origin in the 9th century. Limbu writing belongs to the Brahmic family; the Limbu language is only distantly related to Lepcha and Tibetan. Limbu and Devanagari numerals can appear in the same document.

Don't confuse it with

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३
Devanagari Digit Three
᥉ vs ३: both mean three, but they belong to different scripts.

Questions people ask

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Why does ᥉ 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 ᥉

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1949, then Alt+X to get ᥉.
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 “limbu digit three”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1949, then Enter or Space.
HTML
᥉
CSS
\1949
Unicode input
Insert U+1949 in a Unicode-aware editor; plain 3 is a different character.
Limbu keyboard
SIL's Namdhinggo offers phonetic and typewriter layouts. As of 2026-09-06, Translation Commons lists layouts for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
᥉
HTML hex
᥉
CSS content
content: "\1949";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%A5%89
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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.

Families this belongs to

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