U+10183 "𐆃" Greek Litra Sign Unicode Character

U+10183 "𐆃" Greek Litra Sign is a historical symbol representing the ancient Greek unit of weight and currency known as the litra, which was commonly used in various Greek city-states, particularly in Sicily and Magna Graecia, for measuring precious metals and coinage. This character belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Ancient Greek Numbers block, and it serves as a typographic representation of a sign that originally resembled a stylized capital lambda or a similar angular character. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars, historians, and typographers to accurately digitize and display ancient Greek financial and metrological texts without requiring special fonts or workarounds. The Greek litra itself was roughly equivalent to a Roman libra, weighing about 327 grams, and the sign was often inscribed on coins or weights to denote value or denomination.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10183
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Litra 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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD83
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010183
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd83

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