U+10145 "𐅅" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐅅
U+10145 "𐅅" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred is a numeral symbol from the ancient Athenian system of acrophonic numerals, where signs were derived from the first letter of the Greek word for the value. This particular character represents the number 500, originating from the letter "Η" (eta), the initial of the word "πεντακόσιοι" (pentakósioi, meaning five hundred). It was historically used on inscriptions, financial records, and official decrees in ancient Athens, forming part of a larger set of signs that preceded the later alphabetic Greek numerals. As a rare and historic symbol, it is encoded in the Ancient Greek Numbers block of the Unicode standard, preserving a tangible link to classical Greek accounting and epigraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10145 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred |
| Block | Ancient Greek Numbers |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐅅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐅅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDD45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010145 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udd45 |