U+109C4 "𐧄" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Unicode Character

U+109C4 "𐧄" Meroitic Cursive Number Five is a numeral from the Meroitic script, which was used to write the Meroitic language spoken in the Kingdom of Kush, a civilization that flourished along the Nile in present-day Sudan from around 300 BCE to 350 CE. This cursive numeral specifically represents the number five, operating within a base-10 system that employed distinct signs for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, often appearing in administrative, funerary, and economic texts. The character is part of the Meroitic Cursive block in Unicode, which was encoded to support digital preservation and study of this ancient script, distinguishing it from the more formal and geometric Meroitic hieroglyphic form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109C4
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Number Five
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧄
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDC4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddc4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	5
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