U+10916 "𐤖" Phoenician Number One Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐤖
U+10916 "𐤖" Phoenician Number One is a numeral used in the ancient Phoenician script, representing the digit 1 and belonging to the Phoenician block of the Unicode Standard. This character is part of a numeric system that the Phoenicians, a Semitic-speaking civilization known for their maritime trade and alphabet, employed for accounting and inscriptions. Its glyph is a simple vertical stroke, reflecting a common cross-cultural convention for denoting unity in early numeral systems. Encoding this symbol allows for the accurate digital representation of historical texts and facilitates study in epigraphy, linguistics, and ancient Near Eastern history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10916 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phoenician Number One |
| Block | Phoenician |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐤖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐤖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010916 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\udd16 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 1 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Phoenician |
| Script Extensions | Phoenician |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |