U+10187 "𐆇" Greek Aroura Sign Unicode Character

U+10187 "𐆇" Greek Aroura Sign is an ancient Greek symbol representing a unit of land area equal to 100 Greek feet square, roughly corresponding to about 0.024 of a modern acre or 0.0095 hectares. It was used in classical Greece for measuring agricultural plots, particularly in contexts of land ownership, taxation, and property records. This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block of Unicode, which encodes various numeric and metrological symbols from ancient Greek scripts, distinguishing it from modern Greek letters. The aroura sign appears as a stylized glyph often resembling a square with a cross or dot inside, reflecting its origins in ancient stone inscriptions and papyri.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10187
Version Added	4.1
Name	Greek Aroura 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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010187
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd87

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