U+10187 "𐆇" Greek Aroura Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+10187 "𐆇" Greek Aroura Sign is an ancient Greek symbol representing a unit of land area equal to 100 Greek feet square, roughly corresponding to about 0.024 of a modern acre or 0.0095 hectares. It was used in classical Greece for measuring agricultural plots, particularly in contexts of land ownership, taxation, and property records. This character belongs to the Ancient Greek Numbers block of Unicode, which encodes various numeric and metrological symbols from ancient Greek scripts, distinguishing it from modern Greek letters. The aroura sign appears as a stylized glyph often resembling a square with a cross or dot inside, reflecting its origins in ancient stone inscriptions and papyri.
General Properties
Code Point
U+10187
Name
Greek Aroura Sign
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𐆇
HTML Hex Encoding
𐆇
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0x86 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD800 0xDD87
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00010187
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud800\udd87
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Greek