U+109DF "𐧟" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Thousand Unicode Character

U+109DF "𐧟" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Thousand is a numeric symbol from the Meroitic script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan, primarily between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE. This character represents the value of five thousand in the Meroitic cursive numeral system, a decimal system that combined specific signs for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. The Meroitic script was used to write the Meroitic language, and while its alphabetic forms are well documented, the numerals, particularly the cursive variants like this one, provide insight into the administrative and economic practices of Kushite civilization.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧟
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDDF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109DF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udddf

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	5000
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