What 𑛁 means
It denotes the value 1 in Takri.
Sharada, a script used from the 8th century, is Takri’s earlier ancestor. Takri descended from it through Devāśeṣa, a religious and official script that emerged in the 14th century; distinct Takri took shape in the 16th. Takri wrote Chambeali, Dogri, and other Pahari languages, appeared in commercial records, and served as the official script of several princely states from the 17th to the middle of the 20th century.
Takri had no universal standard. Regional Takri forms can look very different; Unicode treats these as font-level glyph variants. A changed shape does not make 𑛁 a different numeral.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𑛁 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 𑛁
𑛁\116C1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.