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 |