U+10197 "𐆗" Roman Quinarius Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐆗
U+10197 "𐆗" Roman Quinarius Sign is a historical monetary symbol used in ancient Rome to represent the quinarius, a silver coin valued at half a denarius or five asses. This character belongs to the Ancient Symbols block of the Unicode standard, which encodes various signs and notations from antiquity, and serves as a typographic tool for scholars and enthusiasts who need to accurately depict Roman currency in digital texts. Its inclusion ensures that the symbol for this once common coin, which was minted during the Roman Republic and early Empire, remains available for use in historical, numismatic, or linguistic writing without relying on graphical approximations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10197 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Roman Quinarius Sign |
| Block | Ancient Symbols |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDD97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010197 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udd97 |
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 | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |