What means
It stands for six in a Bhumij number.
Ol Onal is an alphabetic script for Bhumij, a Munda language spoken in eastern India. Mahendra Nath Sardar developed it between 1981 and 1992. In 1992, Adim Bhumij Samaj selected it in a contest among three proposals; Bhumij had also been written in Odia, Bengali, Devanagari, and Latin scripts.
Why does the Ol Onal digit six look different in older examples?
The original designs were hard to reproduce in fonts.
The first digital fonts used altered shapes, and printed examples use the revised set. An older chart may show the earlier designs.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why won't a number field accept ?
Some fields accept only the standard digits 0–9. is a separate character with the value six, so those filters may reject it.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1E5F7, then Alt+X to get .
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 “ol onal digit six”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1e5f7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𞗷CSS
\1E5F7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1E5F7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%97%B7
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.