U+1014E "𐅎" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Thousand Talents Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐅎

U+1014E "𐅎" Greek Acrophonic Attic Five Thousand Talents is a numeral symbol from the ancient Greek acrophonic numeral system, specifically used in classical Athens to denote the vast sum of 5,000 talents, a unit of weight and currency. This character belongs to the "Ancient Greek Numbers" Unicode block and reflects the acrophonic principle, where the symbol is derived from the initial letter of the Greek word for "five thousand" (ΠΕΝΤΑΚΙΣΧΙΛΙΟΙ, pentakischilioi). Its historical use primarily appears in financial inscriptions, tax records, and public accounts on stone or metal, representing large-scale wealth or debt in Athenian state finance.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐅎
HTML Hex Encoding 𐅎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDD4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001014E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udd4e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 5000
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