U+1091A "𐤚" Phoenician Number Two Unicode Character

U+1091A "𐤚" Phoenician Number Two is a numeric symbol from the Phoenician script, used by the ancient Phoenician civilization that flourished around 1200–300 BCE along the eastern Mediterranean coast. This character represents the numeral 2, belonging to a distinct set of Phoenician number signs that were derived from their alphabet but employed for counting and commercial purposes, often found in inscriptions on coins, weights, and trade documents. As part of the Unicode Phoenician block, it preserves a fragment of one of the earliest known writing systems, which laid the foundation for many later alphabets, including Greek and Latin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1091A
Version Added	5.2
Name	Phoenician Number Two
Block	Phoenician
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐤚
HTML Hex Encoding	𐤚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA4 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDD1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001091A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udd1a

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	Phoenician
Script Extensions	Phoenician
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other