U+102F8 "𐋸" Coptic Epact Number Six Hundred Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐋸

U+102F8 "𐋸" Coptic Epact Number Six Hundred is a historical numeral symbol used within the Coptic numeral system, which was developed in Egypt for astronomical and calendrical calculations, particularly for determining the date of Easter. This character represents the numerical value 600 and is part of the Coptic Epact Numbers block, a set of special symbols derived from the Coptic alphabet that were employed to denote specific numeric quantities in epact tables. Its design resembles a modified or stylized form of the Coptic letter "So" (ⲥ), reflecting the alphabetic origins of these numeral signs. As a specialized notation, this character is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient Egyptian Christian liturgical texts, computational astronomy, and the historical development of number systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+102F8
Version Added 7.0
Name Coptic Epact Number Six Hundred
Block Coptic Epact Numbers
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class European Number

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐋸
HTML Hex Encoding 𐋸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8B 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDEF8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000102F8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udef8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 600
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Arabic Coptic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other