U+109C3 "𐧃" Meroitic Cursive Number Four Unicode Character

U+109C3 "𐧃" Meroitic Cursive Number Four is a numeral sign used in the Meroitic script, which was employed to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush in present-day Sudan. This character represents the number four in the cursive form of the script, which was developed from Egyptian hieroglyphs and used primarily for administrative and funerary texts between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE. Its adoption into Unicode allows for the digital representation of this historical numeral, preserving its use in academic study and modern encoding of ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109C3
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Number Four
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧃
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109C3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddc3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	4
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