Warang Citi Digit Five

It gives a number the value five.

Warang Citi is used to write Ho; this character belongs to its numeral set. The script has separate signs for zero through nine and a separate sign for ten. A date example writes each digit separately, so 𑣥 can form part of a longer number.

When did Warang Citi take its modern form?

Its modern form is associated with Lako Bodra in the 1950s.

Bodra, a Ho community leader, developed the script as an alternative to scripts used by Christian missionary linguists to write Ho. Its forms were designed to look distinct from other writing systems. Ho has also been written in Devanagari, used for Hindi and other languages, in the script used for Odia, and in Latin letters.

A Ho community origin story says the shaman Deowan Turi, a ritual specialist, rediscovered the script in the 13th century. Its letter shapes resemble Latin and Brahmi, an older Indian writing system, but resemblance alone does not establish whether Warang Citi borrowed from them or they borrowed from it.

How do I type 𑣥?

Use a Warang Citi keyboard layout; the usual 5 key enters a different character.

If the character appears as a box, the font or app may not have a Warang Citi glyph. A font with coverage for the script can display it.