U+109FA "𐧺" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Five Twelfths Unicode Character

U+109FA "𐧺" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Five Twelfths is a numeric symbol from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in what is now Sudan, between approximately the 3rd century BC and the 4th century AD. This character represents the specific fractional value of five twelfths, and it belongs to a set of specialized numeric signs that were part of the Meroitic cursive writing system, which was employed for administrative and everyday record keeping, unlike the more formal Meroitic hieroglyphs. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the numerical notation of this historic African civilization for study and digital representation.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧺
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDFA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109FA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddfa

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	5/12
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