U+109CE "𐧎" Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty Unicode Character

U+109CE "𐧎" Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty is a numeral from the Meroitic script, which was used to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan. This character represents the number sixty in the Meroitic Cursive numerical system, a cursive or shorthand form derived from the earlier Meroitic Hieroglyphic script. Meroitic Cursive was primarily employed for everyday administrative and economic records, making numerals like this one essential for documenting quantities, transactions, and calculations. The character itself is composed of distinctive flowing strokes, reflecting the cursive nature of the script. Unicode inclusion of this character, in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, helps preserve and digitally represent this historical writing system for scholars and modern users.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧎
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDCE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddce

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	60
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