U+10149 "𐅉" Greek Acrophonic Attic Ten Talents Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐅉

U+10149 "𐅉" Greek Acrophonic Attic Ten Talents is a numeral symbol from the ancient Greek acrophonic number system, used in Athens and other Attic regions before the adoption of the more familiar alphabetic numerals. This character represents the value of ten talents, a large unit of currency or weight equivalent to approximately 26 kilograms of silver or gold. The symbol itself is derived from the initial Greek letter tau (Τ), the first letter of the word "talent" (τάλαντον), and it belongs to a broader class of acrophonic numerals where the initial sound of the unit's name formed the basis of its notation. Inscription evidence shows that this numeral was employed in financial records, tribute lists, and public contracts to denote substantial sums, reflecting the economic scale of ancient Athenian state expenses and trade.

General Properties

Code Point U+10149
Version Added 4.1
Name Greek Acrophonic Attic Ten Talents
Block Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐅉
HTML Hex Encoding 𐅉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDD49
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010149
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udd49

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 10
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