U+10148 "𐅈" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Talents Unicode Character

U+10148 "𐅈" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Talents is an ancient numeral symbol used in classical Athenian accounting and inscriptions, representing a monetary value of five talents. The term "acrophonic" refers to the system where numerals derive from the first letter of the word for the number, and in this case, the symbol is a ligature of the Greek letter pi (for "pente," meaning five) and tau (for "talanton," meaning talent). This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and was employed primarily for financial records on stone and papyrus, reflecting the sophisticated numerical notation of Attic Greece before the adoption of alphabetic numerals. It is now preserved for historical and scholarly purposes in digital text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10148
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Talents
Block	Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category	Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐅈
HTML Hex Encoding	𐅈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010148
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd48

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	5
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter