U+10156 "𐅖" Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters Unicode Character

U+10156 "𐅖" Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters is an ancient numeral symbol from the Greek acrophonic numerical system, specifically used in Attica (the region around Athens) to represent the value of fifty thousand staters, a significant unit of currency in classical antiquity. This character is part of the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and is derived from the initial letter of the word for the number or unit, following the acrophonic principle where symbols are formed from the first letter of the Greek word for the quantity. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital representation of Greek numeric inscriptions and financial records from the Archaic and Classical periods, aiding scholars in the accurate preservation and study of ancient economic texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10156
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters
Block	Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category	Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐅖
HTML Hex Encoding	𐅖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010156
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd56

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	50000
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