U+1D2CF "𝋏" Kaktovik Numeral Fifteen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝋏
U+1D2CF "𝋏" Kaktovik Numeral Fifteen is a digit from the Kaktovik numeric system, invented by Iñupiat students and their teacher in Kaktovik, Alaska, in the early 1990s to support base-20 counting traditionally used in their language. This character specifically represents the number fifteen, which in the Kaktovik system is formed by combining the symbols for ten and five, reflecting a visual and logical additive structure that aids arithmetic. The Kaktovik numeral set was added to Unicode in 2023 as part of version 15.0, helping to preserve and digitize this culturally significant writing system for modern communication and computational use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D2CF |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Kaktovik Numeral Fifteen |
| Block | Kaktovik Numerals |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝋏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝋏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x8B 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD834 0xDECF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D2CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud834\udecf |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 15 |
| 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 |