U+1377 "፷" Ethiopic Number Sixty Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1377 "፷" Ethiopic Number Sixty is a numeral used in the Ge'ez script, which is historically and currently employed for writing the Ethiopian Semitic languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic numeric system, where this specific symbol represents the integer 60, formed by combining the sign for ten with a multiplier, following a pattern based on additive and multiplicative principles. In traditional Ethiopic numeral notation, the character is visually distinctive with its angular strokes, and it remains in use today for numbering pages, chapters, and other items in liturgical and secular texts within Ethiopian and Eritrean cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1377 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Number Sixty |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1377 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001377 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1377 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 60 |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Ethiopic |
| Script Extensions | Ethiopic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |