U+109D6 "𐧖" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Hundred Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+109D6 "𐧖" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Hundred is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This script was a simplified, fluid form of writing derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, primarily used for everyday record keeping and administrative documents. Representing the numerical value of five hundred, this character belongs to a decimal based numerical system where symbols were combined to represent higher quantities. The inclusion of this and similar characters in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the written heritage of the Meroitic civilization, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study and reproduce these ancient texts with modern technology.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𐧖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𐧖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD802 0xDDD6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000109D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud802\uddd6 |
Unicode Properties