U+1015C "𐅜" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Two Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐅜

U+1015C "𐅜" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Two is a numeral from the ancient Greek acrophonic system, specifically representing the number two as used in the city of Thespiae. This character is part of a historical counting method where the first letter of a number’s name was used as its symbol, and here it derives from the Greek word for two, "δύο" (dyo), with a distinctive Thespian variant. It belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block and is classified as a numeric symbol, offering insight into regional numerical notation practices in antiquity.

General Properties

Code Point U+1015C
Version Added 4.1
Name Greek Acrophonic Thespian Two
Block Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐅜
HTML Hex Encoding 𐅜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDD5C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001015C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udd5c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 2
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