U+109C9 "𐧉" Meroitic Cursive Number Ten Unicode Character

U+109C9 "𐧉" Meroitic Cursive Number Ten is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) between roughly the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE. This character represents the number ten and is part of a cursive writing system derived from Egyptian hieratic numerals, adapted for the Meroitic language. The Meroitic Cursive script was primarily employed for administrative and everyday records, with its numeric symbols appearing on ostraca, temple inscriptions, and funerary texts. Included in Unicode version 6.1 in 2012, this character helps preserve the numerical notation of an ancient African civilization that remains only partially deciphered.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109C9
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Number Ten
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧉
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109C9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddc9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	10
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