What ꠲ means
Read it as three parts out of four.
North Indic fraction signs recorded currency, weights, measures, time, and other quantities across North India, Pakistan, and parts of Nepal; they also appear in South Indian scripts, including Kannada. Use in documents is attested from at least the 16th century and in printed texts as late as 1970. Unicode 18.0 describes them as occasionally still used in a limited capacity.
The North Indic fraction system is based on sixteenths and quarters. Intermediate values could be built additively: 5/16 1/4 1/16. In Maharashtra and Gujarat, separate independent quarter, half, and three-quarter forms were marked with middle dots around the usual signs in some Devanagari and Gujarati material.
Why do some North Indic fraction signs look different?
Regional variation affects particular forms; their values stay fixed. Unicode 18.0 documents a Kannada style where the signs for 1/16, 1/8, and 3/16 use horizontal bars instead of the slanted bars used in other forms. Those are separate characters, not alternate values or shapes for ꠲.
Historical number notation; plain 3/4 is clearer when readers may not know the North Indic forms.
Don't assume a reader will recognize ꠲ as three quarters.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꠲ show as a box?
A font may not contain this character, so some devices display an empty box. A font with Common Indic Number Forms coverage can show its designed glyph.
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How to type or find ꠲
- Search it as
- 3/4 · ¾ · three quarters · three-quarter fraction · North Indic fraction · fraction sign · anna fraction
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꠲\A832a832, then press AltX.a832, then Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
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