U+1016E "𐅮" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Five Hundred Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐅮
U+1016E "𐅮" Greek Acrophonic Thespian Five Hundred is a numeral sign from the ancient Greek acrophonic numbering system, specifically representing the value of five hundred. It is part of a script used primarily in the region of Thespiae in Boeotia, where such symbols were derived from the initial letters of the words for numbers, a method known as acrophony. This character appears in the Unicode Standard within the Ancient Greek Numbers block, which documents a variety of archaic numeral forms used across different Greek city-states. Its inclusion preserves the historical variation in Greek numerical notation, distinguishing local practices like those of Thespiae from more common Attic or other regional systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1016E |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Greek Acrophonic Thespian Five Hundred |
| Block | Ancient Greek Numbers |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐅮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐅮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDD6E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001016E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udd6e |