U+1016F "𐅯" Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐅯

U+1016F "𐅯" Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred is a numeral symbol from the ancient Greek acrophonic numeral system, specifically associated with the region of Carystus on the island of Euboea. This system used the initial letters of number words to represent values, and the symbol for five hundred is derived from the letter pi, standing for the word "πεντακόσιοι" (pentakósioi). It belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and was used primarily in inscriptions and accounting records before the widespread adoption of the simpler alphabetic numeral system.

General Properties

Code Point U+1016F
Version Added 4.1
Name Greek Acrophonic Carystian Five Hundred
Block Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐅯
HTML Hex Encoding 𐅯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x85 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDD6F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001016F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udd6f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 500
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