U+109FE "𐧾" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Nine Twelfths Unicode Character

U+109FE "𐧾" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Nine Twelfths is a numeral symbol from the Meroitic Cursive script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This character represents a fraction equal to nine twelfths, or three quarters, and is part of a broader set of fraction signs employed in the Meroitic cursive numeral system, which was used for administrative and economic record keeping. The character’s inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and study of this historical script, enabling researchers to accurately encode and analyze inscriptions and documents from the Nubian civilization.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐧾
HTML Hex Encoding	𐧾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD802 0xDDFE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000109FE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud802\uddfe

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	9/12
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