U+109EF "𐧯" Meroitic Cursive Number Three Hundred Thousand Unicode Character

U+109EF "𐧯" Meroitic Cursive Number Three Hundred Thousand is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan, to write the Meroitic language from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the decimal value of three hundred thousand, reflecting the script’s sophisticated numerical system that employed cursive, connected forms distinct from the earlier Meroitic hieroglyphs. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Meroitic Cursive block, helping preserve and digitally represent the historical numerical notations of this once-thriving African civilization.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧯
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddef

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	300000
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