U+1018E "𐆎" Nomisma Sign Unicode Character

U+1018E "𐆎" Nomisma Sign is a historical monetary symbol originating from the Byzantine Empire, where it represented the nomisma, a gold coin that served as the standard unit of currency in Byzantine commerce and taxation for centuries. This character is encoded in the Ancient Symbols block of Unicode, specifically designed to support scholarly and digital representations of ancient and medieval scripts and notations. Its inclusion allows historians and typographers to accurately reproduce Byzantine financial documents and inscriptions without resorting to approximations or modern substitutes. The nomisma sign retains linguistic and cultural significance as a tangible link to the economic systems of the late Roman and Byzantine worlds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1018E
Version Added	9.0
Name	Nomisma Sign
Block	Ancient Greek Numbers
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐆎
HTML Hex Encoding	𐆎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x86 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDD8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001018E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udd8e

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