What means
Early font technology made the original design hard to reproduce.
The first digital fonts changed Ol Onal’s original digit designs in 2013 because they were hard to reproduce. Mahendra Nath Sardar began developing Ol Onal around 1981 to write Bhumij. Adim Bhumij Samaj, a Bhumij organization, chose it in a 1992 contest. By 2020, Sardar had written several books in Ol Onal. Ol means “draw”; onal means “shape or diagram.”
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 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
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1E5F3, 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 two”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1e5f3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𞗳CSS
\1E5F3Early font text
Five 2013–2014 fonts mapped Ol Onal to Latin character slots; text made in them needs the same font to display as Ol Onal.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𞗳
HTML hex
𞗳
CSS content
content: "\1E5F3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%97%B3
1
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.