What ௵ means
Read it as a marker meaning “year”. It belongs to Tamil, a language used especially in southern India and Sri Lanka. Varudam names the sign; varusham and aandu are also Tamil words for year.
Look for the accompanying year number or name to find out which year is meant. Tamil has separate signs for day and month, so ௵ identifies just one part of the date.
This is a written date convention: the day, month and year signs occur in Tamil accounting records, newspapers and almanacs—publications containing calendars and related information. Their use predates computer encoding.
A practical date marker, associated with calendars and written records.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Worth knowing
- Historical manuscripts in Tamil and Grantha, a script used for Sanskrit, can date years by a repeating cycle of names or the Kollam era, a year-counting system associated with Kerala.
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How to type or find ௵
- Also called
- varudam
- Search it as
- Tamil year symbol · varusham · aandu
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
௵CSS
\0BF5Tamil InScript
On the revised Tamil InScript layout documented in 2015, press h. This mapping does not apply to every Tamil keyboard.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
௵
HTML hex
௵
CSS content
content: "\0BF5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%AF%B5
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.