U+109FA "๐งบ" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Five Twelfths Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

๐งบ
Source: Noto Sans Meroitic Source: Browser Default

U+109FA "๐งบ" Meroitic Cursive Fraction Five Twelfths is a numeric symbol from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in what is now Sudan, between approximately the 3rd century BC and the 4th century AD. This character represents the specific fractional value of five twelfths, and it belongs to a set of specialized numeric signs that were part of the Meroitic cursive writing system, which was employed for administrative and everyday record keeping, unlike the more formal Meroitic hieroglyphs. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the numerical notation of this historic African civilization for study and digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point
U+109FA
Name
Meroitic Cursive Fraction Five Twelfths

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𐧺
HTML Hex Encoding
𐧺
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDDFA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000109FA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\uddfa