Coptic Epact Numbers

Coptic Epact Numbers
Range	U+102E0..U+102FF (32 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Common (27 char.) Inherited (1 char.)
Symbol sets	Number forms
Assigned	28 code points
Unused	4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0	28 (+28)
Note: [1][2]

Coptic Epact Numbers is a Unicode block containing old Coptic number forms.

These numbers were used in some regions instead of letters of the Coptic alphabet that were used for encoding numbers, as was common in much of the world at the time, like Roman numerals. It was used most extensively in the Bohairic dialect of the Coptic language that became the liturgical language of Egyptian Christians. It contains separate characters for each of the digits, 1-9 (0 was not indicated), each of the tens numbers from 10-90, and each of the hundreds numbers from 100-900. Numbers were composed from left-to-right by successively adding the values that each character or digit represented. There is a thousand mark diacritic that adds a thousand to the digit (so 5 with thousand mark = 5,000, 900 with thousand mark indicates 900,000) Two of the thousands marks together (visually similar to a tanween al-kasra in Arabic) represents a million in a similar fashion, and mirrors other Coptic conventions of indicating higher orders by repetition of marks.

U+102E0–U+102FF Final Accepted Script Proposal

Coptic Epact Numbers^[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+102Ex

𐋠

𐋡

𐋢

𐋣

𐋤

𐋥

𐋦

𐋧

𐋨

𐋩

𐋪

𐋫

𐋬

𐋭

𐋮

𐋯

U+102Fx

𐋰

𐋱

𐋲

𐋳

𐋴

𐋵

𐋶

𐋷

𐋸

𐋹

𐋺

𐋻

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 8.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

See also

• Coptic alphabet in Unicode

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
2. The Unicode Standard Version 1.0, Volume 1. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 1990–1991. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.