U+1017D "𐅽" Greek Two Obols Sign Unicode Character

U+1017D "𐅽" Greek Two Obols Sign is a historical monetary symbol used in the ancient Greek world, specifically representing a coin worth two obols. This symbol belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block of Unicode, which encodes various numeral and currency signs from ancient epigraphic sources. The two obols sign was typically employed in inscriptions and accounting records to denote a specific unit of currency, with an obol being a small silver coin in ancient Athens and other Greek city states. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and digital typographers to accurately represent ancient Greek financial documents and numismatic texts in modern electronic formats.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1017D
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Two Obols Sign
Block	Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐅽
HTML Hex Encoding	𐅽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x85 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD7D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001017D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd7d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Greek
Script Extensions	Greek
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other