Ancient Symbols (Unicode block)

Ancient Symbols
Ancient Symbols
Range	U+10190..U+101CF; (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Greek (1 char.) ; Common (13 char.)
Symbol sets	Roman weights and currency
Assigned	14 code points
Unused	50 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)	12 (+12)
7.0 (2014)	13 (+1)
13.0 (2020)	14 (+1)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
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Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures. It also contains the "GREEK SYMBOL TAU RHO" (tau rho or the staurogram (⳨)) at U+101A0.

Block

This section contains uncommon Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the intended characters.

Ancient Symbols^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+1019x	𐆐	𐆑	𐆒	𐆓	𐆔	𐆕	𐆖	𐆗	𐆘	𐆙	𐆚	𐆛	𐆜
U+101Ax	𐆠
U+101Bx
U+101Cx
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ancient Symbols block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.1	U+10190..1019A	11	L2/06-173		Perry, David J. (2006-05-05), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
			L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.21", UTC #107 Minutes
			L2/06-234		Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
				N3138	Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
			L2/06-231		Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "C.7", UTC #108 Minutes
				N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.20", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
	U+1019B	1	L2/06-269	N3218	Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
			L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C33", UTC #109 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.24", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
7.0	U+101A0	1	L2/12-034	N4194	Sosin, Joshua; Heilporn, Paul; Hoogendijk, Cisca; Mastronarde, Donald; Hickey, Todd; Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-23), Proposal for three Greek papyrological characters
			L2/12-007		Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "C.12", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
				N4253 (pdf, doc)	"M59.16g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
13.0	U+1019C	1	L2/19-091	N5038	West, Andrew; Everson, Michael (2019-03-25), Proposal to encode a pair of Ascia symbols for Roman epigraphy
			L2/19-173		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "21", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
				N5122	"M68.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[final-3] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[1] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[2] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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