Masaram Gondi Digit Five

It stands for five in Masaram Gondi writing. It belongs to this script’s decimal digit set and contributes five to a written number.

Masaram Gondi was created to write Gondi, a Dravidian language—a member of a South Asian language family—spoken across central and southeastern India. Unicode dates the script’s creation to 1918; a cultural-history account dates Mangal Singh Masaram’s script-development work to 1928. A 1951 document by Masaram’s son, Bhava Singh, is an early recorded specimen. The script was used in efforts to revive Gondi literacy and codify its grammar, and a Maharashtra organization adopted it as an official script for Gondi in 2011.

Gondi is also written in Devanagari and Telugu. Gunjala Gondi is another script associated with the language but unrelated to Masaram Gondi, so it is not another form of this digit. Masaram Gondi’s letter structure resembles that of many Indic scripts descended from Brahmi, an older South Asian script, but Masaram Gondi itself is not historically descended from Brahmi.

How do I type Masaram Gondi digit five?

Use Keyman’s Masaram Gondi (ITRANS) layout. Its documented version 1.2.2 maps the 5 key to 𑵕. It also supports phonetic Gondi entry on a standard QWERTY keyboard and has mobile layouts. The selected font must support Masaram Gondi to display the glyph.