U+109F9 "𐧹" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Four Twelfths Unicode Character

U+109F9 "𐧹" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Four Twelfths is part of the Meroitic Cursive script block, which was used to write the Meroitic language in ancient Nubia (present-day Sudan and southern Egypt) from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the numerical fraction four twelfths, simplifying to one third, and was employed in administrative and economic texts to denote portions or divisions of goods or quantities. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the record of this historical writing system, which remains only partially deciphered, by enabling digital representation and study of its numeric notations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+109F9
Version Added	8.0
Name	Meroitic Cursive Fraction Four Twelfths
Block	Meroitic Cursive
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧹
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDF9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109F9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddf9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	4/12
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