U+1017F "𐅿" Greek Four Obols Sign Unicode Character

U+1017F "𐅿" Greek Four Obols Sign is an ancient Greek numeral symbol used in the Classical and Hellenistic periods to represent the value of four obols, where an obol was a small silver coin and a unit of currency or weight in ancient Greece. This character is part of the Ancient Greek Numbers block in Unicode, which encodes various numeral systems such as acrophonic and alphabetic signs. Typically inscribed on stone or pottery in financial and administrative records, the sign appears as a combination of four vertical strokes or a stylized mark, reflecting the tally-based accounting methods of the time. Its inclusion in modern digital standards allows historians and numismatists to accurately represent and study ancient Greek monetary documents in electronic texts and databases.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1017F
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Four 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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD7F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001017F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd7f

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