U+10156 "𐅖" Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𐅖
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U+10156 "𐅖" Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters is an ancient numeral symbol from the Greek acrophonic numerical system, specifically used in Attica (the region around Athens) to represent the value of fifty thousand staters, a significant unit of currency in classical antiquity. This character is part of the Ancient Greek Numbers Unicode block and is derived from the initial letter of the word for the number or unit, following the acrophonic principle where symbols are formed from the first letter of the Greek word for the quantity. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital representation of Greek numeric inscriptions and financial records from the Archaic and Classical periods, aiding scholars in the accurate preservation and study of ancient economic texts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+10156
Name
Greek Acrophonic Attic Fifty Thousand Staters

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𐅖
HTML Hex Encoding
𐅖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x85 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD800 0xDD56
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010156
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud800\udd56