What ߿ means
It marks an amount in the N’Ko unit taman.
It comes before the digits even though N’Ko runs right to left. The sign appears in a Unicode proposal published in 2015.
Solomana Kanté devised N’Ko in 1949 to write the Manding languages of West Africa and support mother-tongue literacy.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
215 taman; the sign precedes the amount.
5 dorome and 95 taman.
Questions people ask
1Can a missing font change how ߿ appears?
Yes. The character stays the same, but a font without N’Ko support may show a fallback glyph or an empty box.
Collections with ߿
2How to type or find ߿
- Search it as
- taman · N’Ko money sign · dorome · N’Ko currency sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
߿
HTML hex
߿
CSS content
content: "\07FF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DF%BF
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





