U+109E2 "𐧢" Meroitic Cursive Number Eight Thousand Unicode Character

U+109E2 "𐧢" Meroitic Cursive Number Eight Thousand is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, which flourished in the Nile region of present-day Sudan between roughly the 3rd century BC and the 4th century AD. Representing the numeric value of eight thousand, this character belongs to a distinctive cursive writing system derived from Egyptian hieratic numerals and employed primarily for administrative, economic, and funerary texts. The Meroitic script remains only partially deciphered, but this numeral offers insight into the kingdom's complex numeric notation, where large numbers were formed by combining signs for thousands with smaller units. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures the preservation and digital representation of this ancient African writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109E2
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Number Eight Thousand
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧢
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDE2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109E2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\udde2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	8000
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