U+101A0 "𐆠" Greek Symbol Tau Rho Unicode Character

U+101A0 "𐆠" Greek Symbol Tau Rho is a single typographic ligature or monogram that combines the Greek letters tau (Τ, τ) and rho (Ρ, ρ), and it resides in the Ancient Greek Numbers block of the Unicode standard. This symbol was historically used as a Christian symbol, often linked to the concept of staurogram, which represented the cross and served as a sacred abbreviation for the word "stauros" meaning cross. Positioned in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation of ancient texts, inscriptions, and manuscripts where this compact graphical mark conveyed significant religious or scribal meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+101A0
Version Added	7.0
Name	Greek Symbol Tau Rho
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 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDDA0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000101A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udda0

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