U+10185 "𐆅" Greek Xestes Sign Unicode Character

U+10185 "𐆅" Greek Xestes Sign is a historical symbol used in ancient Greek and Byzantine metrology to represent the xestes, a unit of liquid volume approximately equivalent to one Roman sextarius (about 0.5 liters). It belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block and is classified as an ancient symbol, often found in inscriptions and manuscripts referencing measures for wine, oil, or other liquids. Its digital representation preserves this culturally significant denotation for modern text processing and scholarly work.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10185
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Xestes 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 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD85
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010185
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd85

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