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𐋥

coptic epact digit five

Coptic Epact Digit Five

𐋥 means five in the Coptic epact number system. These signs appear in accounts, calendars, astronomy, and manuscript page numbers. Egyptian Christians developed the system; Muslim and Jewish communities also used it in Arabic records.

Text symbol
Search it as
ḥurūf al-zimām · cursive Coptic numbers · Arabic manuscript numerals
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𐋥 means

It means five; larger signs come first. Values add: 𐋫 followed by 𐋥 is 25. The set has separate signs for units, tens, and hundreds, but no zero.

In Arabic, the system is called ḥurūf al-zimām (“register letters”). It developed in Egypt in the 10th century from handwritten Coptic letters used as numbers. Egyptian Christians used it for business records; Muslim and Jewish communities used it in Arabic accounts, astronomy, calendars, and page numbering.

Manuscripts dated 1290–1748 show local variants, some shaped by nearby Arabic letters. Even in right-to-left Arabic, a number sequence reads left to right.

Don't confuse it with

4
𐋡
Coptic Epact Digit One
shares “coptic”, “digit”, “epact”
𐋢
Coptic Epact Digit Two
shares “coptic”, “digit”, “epact”
𐋣
Coptic Epact Digit Three
shares “coptic”, “digit”, “epact”
𐋤
Coptic Epact Digit Four
shares “coptic”, “digit”, “epact”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𐋥 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 𐋥

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 102E5, then Alt+X to get 𐋥.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “coptic epact digit five”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 102e5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐋥
CSS
\102E5
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐋥
HTML hex
𐋥
CSS content
content: "\102E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%8B%A5
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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