What ꣔ means
It writes the number four in Saurashtra script.
꣔ is a decimal digit in the Saurashtra script. Saurashtra is an Indo-European language related to Gujarati and spoken in southern India.
The modern Saurashtra script developed in the late 1800s. By the late 19th century, books in Saurashtra appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Devanagari, and Saurashtra scripts; a 1943 survey records publications in Madras from 1880 onward.
Neutral and numerical in Saurashtra-script text: it is an ordinary digit.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1345 written in Saurashtra digits.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꣔ show as a box?
A box usually means the selected font lacks a Saurashtra glyph. Use a font with Saurashtra coverage.
How to type ꣔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A8D4, then Alt+X to get ꣔.
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 “saurashtra digit four”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a8d4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꣔CSS
\A8D4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꣔
HTML hex
꣔
CSS content
content: "\A8D4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A3%94
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.