U+1017D "𐅽" Greek Two Obols Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1017D "𐅽" Greek Two Obols Sign is a historical monetary symbol used in the ancient Greek world, specifically representing a coin worth two obols. This symbol belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block of Unicode, which encodes various numeral and currency signs from ancient epigraphic sources. The two obols sign was typically employed in inscriptions and accounting records to denote a specific unit of currency, with an obol being a small silver coin in ancient Athens and other Greek city states. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and digital typographers to accurately represent ancient Greek financial documents and numismatic texts in modern electronic formats.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1017D
Name
Greek Two Obols Sign
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐅽
HTML Hex Encoding
𐅽
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x85 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD800 0xDD7D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001017D
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud800\udd7d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Greek