Ancient Symbols (Unicode block)

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.

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
Note: [1][2]

Block

Ancient Symbols[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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A

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C

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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

See also

• Greek script in Unicode