What 𐹵 means
It means 400 in the Rumi/Fāsi numeral system. The earliest secure written evidence is Maghrebi writing from the 12th century; related forms appear in Toledo documents in the late 12th century.
Later Rumi signs numbered pages and sections, supported arithmetic in religious and scientific books, and appeared in astronomy; a quire is a book’s folded-sheet gathering.
Unicode preserves a manuscript-derived shape associated with Ibn al-Bannā; historical forms varied. It is separate from Arabic-Indic ٤٠٠, abjad letter-values, and Ottoman Siyaq, another accounting notation.
Historical specialist notation; casual readers may miss its value.
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Who writes 𐹵
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐹵 show as a box?
Usually a font issue: the active font may lack this character, so it displays as a blank or box.
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How to type or find 𐹵
- Search it as
- Rumi 400 · Fāsi 400 · 400 symbol
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐹵\10E75Codes and encoding1 code points
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