Coptic Epact Numbers

See also: Greek and Coptic (Unicode block) and Coptic (Unicode block)

For a list of all numerals encoded in Unicode, see Numerals in Unicode.

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 (2014)	28 ( 28)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

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 multiplies the digit by one thousand (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.

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 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 Coptic Epact Numbers block:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U 102E0..102FB	28	L2/09-163R		Pandey, Anshuman (2009-09-15), Proposal to Encode Coptic Numerals in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/10-114	N3786	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-04-10), Towards an Encoding for Coptic Numbers in the UCS
			L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.8.1", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
			L2/10-206R	N3843R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-06-21), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Numbers
			L2/10-333	N3886	Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2010-09-08), Towards the encoding of a complete set of Coptic numbers
			L2/10-421R	N3958R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-11-01), Request to Rename 'Coptic Numbers' to 'Coptic Epact Numerals'
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C9", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes, Change the block name (for U 102E0 - U 102FF) from "Coptic Numbers" to "Coptic Epact Numbers" and the character names from "Coptic..." to "Coptic Epact..." for range U 102E0 - U 102FF.
			L2/11-035		Lazrek, Azzeddine (2011-01-08), Opposition about encode Coptic Epact numeral system
			L2/11-065		Anderson, Deborah (2011-02-09), Comparison of Coptic Epact vs. Rumi digits
			L2/11-062R	N3990	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-14), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Epact Numbers
			L2/11-016		Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "C.16.1", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	"M57.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
				N4103	"T.2. Coptic Numbers", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03