What 𑛈 means
It marks the quantity eight.
Devāśeṣa, used for religious and official writing, emerged in the 14th century; Takri became distinct from it in the 16th. Regional Takri forms were official in several northern Indian princely states from the 17th century to the middle of the 20th century.
Takri is related to Sharada, Gurmukhi, and Landa; Dogra is closely related. It wrote Chambeali, Dogri, and several Pahari languages of the Himalayas. Regional forms vary in shape, which fonts handle.
Use it when writing or transcribing numbers in Takri.
A changed regional shape still marks eight; a box means the font lacks support.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𑛈 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 𑛈
𑛈\116C8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.