What 𑇔 means
It is the Sharada digit for four. In a Sharada number, its position sets its place value.
Sharada developed from Gupta Brahmi, an older Brahmi form, through Kutila, an intermediate script. The earliest record is disputed: one dating puts a stone inscription around 774–775 CE; another places the earliest examples on Kashmir coins from 855–939 CE.
In Kashmir, Sharada was the main script for literature and inscriptions from the 8th to 20th centuries. In the 19th century, wider use of Arabic-script Kashmiri and Devanagari helped displace it. As of 2026, it remains in limited use among Kashmiri Hindus known as Pandits for horoscopes and rituals.
A digit in a historical script.
A box usually means the font lacks Sharada support; the text still contains this character.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 𑇔 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 𑇔
𑇔\111D4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.