U+109CC "𐧌" Meroitic Cursive Number Forty Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+109CC "𐧌" Meroitic Cursive Number Forty is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) between roughly the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the number forty, part of a decimal numeric system that utilized both cursive and hieroglyphic forms in Meroitic writing. The Meroitic Cursive script was primarily employed for everyday administrative and accounting purposes, alongside religious texts, and its numerals reflect a sophisticated method of recording quantities. As part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, this character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014, helping preserve access to a writing system that historians and linguists are still working to fully decipher.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐧌
HTML Hex Encoding 𐧌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD802 0xDDCC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000109CC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud802\uddcc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 40
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