U+10169 "𐅩" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Fifty Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐅩
U+10169 "𐅩" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Fifty is a numeric symbol from the ancient Greek acrophonic numeral system, specifically used in the city of Thespiae (Thespiai) in Boeotia to represent the number fifty. This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and derives its form from the initial letter of the Greek word for fifty, reflecting the acrophonic principle where the first letter of a number's name stands for that value. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars preserve and digitally represent the diverse regional numeral systems of classical Greece, offering insight into local variations in accounting, civic records, and epigraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10169 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Greek Acrophonic Thespian Fifty |
| Block | Ancient Greek Numbers |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐅩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐅩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDD69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010169 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udd69 |