What 𑿅 means
It marks 1/32, called araivīcam. In Tamil, arai means “half”; vīcam is another fraction name.
About 770, records mention mā, a Tamil land measure. During the Chola dynasty in South India, inscriptions recorded taxable and tax-exempt land in fractions; eighteenth-century palm-leaf accounts used special fraction and measure signs. This broader history does not date this exact glyph.
A 2010 proposal writes 1/32 as 1/40 1/160; a 2016 Tamil review assigns this value a dedicated sign named araivīcam.
Specialist archival notation; it reads as a precise numerical value.
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Who writes 𑿅
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𑿅 show as a box?
It means the active font lacks this character. As of 2026, Noto Sans Tamil Supplement lists support for these signs, but your system may use a different font.
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How to type or find 𑿅
- Also called
- araivīcam
- Search it as
- Tamil 1/32 · Tamil fraction
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑿅\11FC5Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.