U+10186 "𐆆" Greek Artabe Sign Unicode Character

U+10186 "𐆆" Greek Artabe Sign is a historical epigraphic symbol used in ancient Greece to denote the artabe, a Persian-influenced unit of dry volume measurement primarily for grain. Originating from the Achaemenid Empire and later adopted in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, the sign appears in papyri and inscriptions to represent a specific capacity, roughly equivalent to 55 liters or 1.5 bushels, highlighting cultural and economic exchanges between Greek and Persian civilizations. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard preserves this numeral-like notation for scholarly digital documentation of ancient metrology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10186
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Artabe 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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD86
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010186
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd86

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