U+1014C "𐅌" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred Talents Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐅌

U+1014C "𐅌" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred Talents is a numeral symbol from the ancient Greek acrophonic system, used primarily in Athens and other Attic regions to denote a value of five hundred talents, a massive unit of currency and weight. This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block in Unicode, which encodes a variety of numerical signs from early Greek inscriptions. The acrophonic system derived its symbols from the first letters of number words, and this particular glyph represents the letter "Χ" for χίλιοι (thousand), modified to indicate fractional or specific denominations. The talent, equivalent to about 26 kilograms of silver, was a substantial sum typically used for state expenditures, tribute, or large commercial transactions in classical Greece. Thus, U+1014C captures a specific administrative and economic notation from the 5th to 1st centuries BCE, reflecting the precision of Athenian accounting on stone and papyrus.

General Properties

Code Point U+1014C
Version Added 4.1
Name Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Hundred Talents
Block Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐅌
HTML Hex Encoding 𐅌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDD4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001014C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udd4c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 500
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