U+109F7 "𐧷" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Two Twelfths Unicode Character

U+109F7 "𐧷" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Two Twelfths is part of a subset of numeric symbols used within the Meroitic Cursive script, which was the everyday writing system of the ancient Kingdom of Kush in present-day Sudan. This specific glyph represents the rational number 2/12, simplified to 1/6, and was employed in accounting or administrative contexts for recording fractional portions of goods or measurements. Encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane under the Meroitic Cursive block, the character is rendered in a flowing, cursive style distinct from the more angular Meroitic Hieroglyphs, offering modern researchers a tangible link to the economic and mathematical practices of an advanced African civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109F7
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Fraction Two Twelfths
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧷
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDF7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109F7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddf7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	2/12
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