U+10859 "𐡙" Imperial Aramaic Number Two Unicode Character

U+10859 "𐡙" Imperial Aramaic Number Two is a numeral from the Imperial Aramaic script, which was used as a lingua franca across the Achaemenid Persian Empire from roughly the 5th to the 3rd century BCE. This character represents the digit two in a numerical system that employed distinct symbols for units, tens, and hundreds. The Imperial Aramaic number two is typically depicted as a horizontal stroke or wedge, reflecting the cuneiform influence on the script. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard’s Imperial Aramaic block (U+10840 to U+1085F) ensures that scholars and linguists can digitally encode and preserve this ancient writing system for historical and philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10859
Version Added	5.2
Name	Imperial Aramaic Number Two
Block	Imperial Aramaic
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐡙
HTML Hex Encoding	𐡙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA1 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDC59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010859
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udc59

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	2
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Imperial Aramaic
Script Extensions	Imperial Aramaic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other