What 𞴑 means
In an Ottoman record, read it as the value eighty. Its source is the Arabic word ثمانون (ṯamānūn), meaning eighty.
Turkish sources call the compact administrative hand siyakat; its accounting numerals are also known as divan numerals. Abjad differs: it assigns number values to letters, while siyaq uses shortened Arabic number names.
Why was the notation used?
It let officials write accounts quickly, save space, and limit access.
The wider tradition's earliest surviving financial accounts come from Abbasid Baghdad in 918–919. Through Seljuk and Ilkhanid practice, siyakat reached the Ottomans; by the 15th century, Ottoman tax and finance registers used it. Safavid and Mughal administrations used related regional forms, while this mark kept the value eighty.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞴑 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.
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How to type or find 𞴑
- Also called
- siyakat numeral · divan numeral
- Search it as
- siyakat · siyāq · ottoman numerals · divan numerals · ottoman accounting numbers
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𞴑\1ED11Codes and encoding1 code points
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