U+109C0 "𐧀" Meroitic Cursive Number One Unicode Character

U+109C0 "𐧀" Meroitic Cursive Number One is a numeral from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush, which flourished along the Nile River in present-day Sudan. This specific glyph represents the numerical value of one in the cursive form of Meroitic, which was a simplified, everyday script distinct from the more formal hieroglyphic version. Archaeologists and historians rely on such characters to decipher economic and administrative records from Meroitic civilization, as these numerals appear on ostraca and temple inscriptions to denote quantities or dates. As part of the Meroitic Cursive block in the Unicode Standard, it helps preserve and digitize an ancient African writing system for modern scholarship.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109C0
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Number One
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧀
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109C0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddc0

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