U+1CC0C "𜰌" Middle Third Inductor Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜰌

U+1CC0C "𜰌" Middle Third Inductor is a rare and specialized symbol belonging to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically part of a large, early twentieth-century encoding effort called the "D. C. and A. E. Macdonald" code or the "Cipher for Telegraphic Correspondence," which was designed to compress common commercial and legal phrases into single characters for efficient telegraph transmission. This particular inductor likely represents a predefined phrase related to inductions, appointments, or electrical contexts, as the system used a grid-based layout to assign meanings to each character. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves a historical artifact of early digital and telegraphic communication, though it has no practical modern usage outside of academic study or specialized digital archiving.

General Properties

Code Point U+1CC0C
Version Added 16.0
Name Middle Third Inductor
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜰌
HTML Hex Encoding 𜰌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB0 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDC0C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CC0C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\udc0c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other