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sinhala lith digit nine

Sinhala Lith Digit Nine

෯ means nine in historical Sinhala Lith Illakkam, used mainly for horoscopes. Researchers also found it on palm-leaf pages; modern Sinhala writing uses 9.

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Lith Illakkam · Sinhala astrology numerals · Sinhala ephemeris numbers · Sinhala old numerals
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What ෯ means

It means nine in the historical Sinhala Lith system. One study tentatively dates the system's Sri Lankan origin to the 8th–9th century. Lith numerals served horoscopes and planetary calculations, and researchers also found them numbering some palm-leaf books. An early form of nine used Sinhala letter ණ; a later one used letter න with vowel marks. The separate Sinhala Illakkam system served ordinary calculations and is traced to Brahmi, an ancient Indian script whose numerals appear in Sri Lankan rock inscriptions dated AD 200–400. Sinhala Illakkam lacked zero; Lith had a zero placeholder.

Don't confuse it with

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9
Digit Nine
9 or ෯ depends on context: 9 is the Western digit used in modern Sinhala writing; ෯ is the historical Lith form.

Questions people ask

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Why does ෯ 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 ෯

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0DEF, then Alt+X to get ෯.
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 “sinhala lith digit nine”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0def, then Enter or Space.
HTML
෯
CSS
\0DEF
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
෯
HTML hex
෯
CSS content
content: "\0DEF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%B7%AF
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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