U+109CF "𐧏" Meroitic Cursive Number Seventy Unicode Character

U+109CF "𐧏" Meroitic Cursive Number Seventy is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, an alphabetic and numeric writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (modern-day Sudan) from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This character specifically represents the number seventy, and it is part of a larger set of digits employed in the cursive form of Meroitic, which was primarily used for economic and administrative records. The Meroitic script remains only partially deciphered, but numerals like this one provide key insights into the numerical and economic systems of the ancient Nubian civilization that built pyramids and traded extensively with Egypt and the Mediterranean world.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧏
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddcf

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	70
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