U+109D6 "𐧖" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Hundred Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𐧖
Source: Noto Sans Meroitic Source: Browser Default

U+109D6 "𐧖" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Hundred is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. This script was a simplified, fluid form of writing derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, primarily used for everyday record keeping and administrative documents. Representing the numerical value of five hundred, this character belongs to a decimal based numerical system where symbols were combined to represent higher quantities. The inclusion of this and similar characters in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the written heritage of the Meroitic civilization, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study and reproduce these ancient texts with modern technology.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+109D6
Version Added
8.0
Name
Meroitic Cursive Number Five Hundred
Block
Meroitic Cursive
General Category
Other Number
Canonical Combining Class
Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class
Right To Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𐧖
HTML Hex Encoding
𐧖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDDD6
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000109D6
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\uddd6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
Numeric
Numeric Value
500
Line Break
Alphabetic
Script
Meroitic Cursive
Script Extensions
Meroitic Cursive
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
Vertical Orientation
Rotated
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
Other