U+2108 "℈" Scruple Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
℈
U+2108 "℈" Scruple is a typographic symbol derived from the history of pharmacy and medicine, where it represented a scruple, an ancient unit of weight equivalent to 1/24 of an apothecaries' ounce or 20 grains. In modern contexts, it is rarely used in everyday writing but persists in historical or specialized texts related to pharmacology, alchemy, or weights and measures. The character is encoded in the Unicode block for letterlike symbols, which includes other archaic units and abbreviations, and it serves as a digital representation of a notation that was once standard in prescriptions and apothecary records. Its presence in Unicode preserves a small piece of scientific and linguistic history for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2108 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Scruple |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2108 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002108 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2108 |
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 | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |