U+137C "፼" Ethiopic Number Ten Thousand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
፼
U+137C "፼" Ethiopic Number Ten Thousand is a numerical symbol from the Ge'ez script, used historically to represent the value of ten thousand in Ethiopic numeral systems. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the script employed for classical Ge'ez and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. Unlike the Greek or Hebrew numeral traditions, Ethiopic numbers used special composite signs for higher values, and ፼ signifies a significant milestone in that counting system, often appearing in historical manuscripts and inscriptions for large quantities. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and display this ancient numeric notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+137C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Number Ten Thousand |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x137C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000137C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u137c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 10000 |
| 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 |