U+10198 "𐆘" Roman Sestertius Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐆘
U+10198 "𐆘" Roman Sestertius Sign is a historical monetary symbol used in ancient Rome to denote the sestertius, a silver coin that was later minted in brass and served as a key unit of account in the Roman currency system. This symbol is classified under the Ancient Symbols block of Unicode, and its design typically represents the letters "HS" or a variation thereof, abbreviating the Latin phrase "sestertius" which originally meant "two and a half" referring to its value of two and a half asses. The inclusion of this character in Unicode allows modern digital texts to accurately represent Roman financial inscriptions and historical records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10198 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Roman Sestertius 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010198 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udd98 |
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 |