U+10181 "𐆁" Greek Metretes Sign Unicode Character

U+10181 "𐆁" Greek Metretes Sign is a historical symbol used in ancient Greece to denote a unit of liquid volume, specifically the standard Greek metretes, which measured approximately 39.39 liters or about 8.7 gallons. This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and represents a metrological sign that appears in ancient inscriptions and manuscripts related to trade, commerce, and measurement. As a specialist character, it aids scholars and digital text systems in accurately rendering and studying ancient Greek units of measurement.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10181
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Metretes 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 0x86 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010181
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd81

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