Ancient Symbols is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing Roman characters for
currency
A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a ''system of money'' in common use within a specific envi ...
,
weights, and measures. It also contains the "GREEK SYMBOL TAU RHO" (
tau rho
The staurogram (⳨), also monogrammatic cross or ''tau-rho'', is a ligature composed of a superposition of the Greek letters tau (Τ) and rho (Ρ).
Early occurrence and significance
The symbol is of pre-Christian origin. It is found on cop ...
or the ''staurogram'' (⳨)) at U+101A0.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ancient Symbols block:
See also
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Greek script in Unicode
A number of Greek letters, variants, digits, and other symbols are supported by the Unicode character encoding standard.
Blocks
As of version of the Unicode Standard, 518 characters in the following blocks are classified as belonging to the Gree ...
References
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Unicode blocks