Ↄ

See also: Ɔ [U+0186 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O], ɔ [U+0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O], ͻ [U+037B GREEK SMALL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], Ͻ [U+03FD GREEK CAPITAL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL], and ↄ [U+2184 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C]

Ↄ U+2183, Ↄ ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED ← ↂ [U+2182] Number Forms ↄ → [U+2184]

Translingual

Number

Ↄ (lower case ↄ)

1. In composites:
   1. IↃ — 500
   2. CIↃ — 1,000
      • 1868, W. Aldis Wright, Bacon’s Essays and Colours of Good and Evil with Notes and Glossarial Index (in English and Latin), M.A.: Macmillan and Co., preface, page xxi:

        The date of the letter is “ Londini xiv Julii Anglorum CIↃ.DC.XIX.”

   3. IↃↃ — 5,000
   4. CCIↃↃ — 10,000

Synonyms

• (500): D, Ⅾ
• (1,000): M, Ⅿ; ↀ
• (5,000): ↁ
• (10,000): ↂ

Latin

Modern scholars think the Claudian letter may have looked more like this. No examples survive.

Etymology

Created by the Roman Emperor Claudius. Perhaps inspired by the Arcadian variant of the Greek letter psi, ⟨⟩.

Design

Because no examples of the letter survive, it is not certain what it looked like. It may have been Ↄ or an X-like letter resembling ↃC.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(b~p)s/

Letter

Ↄ (lower case ↄ)

1. Upper-case antisigma. Used to replace the digraphs BS and PS, much like X stood in for the digraphs CS and GS.

Related terms

• Ⅎ
• Ⱶ

See also

• Claudian letters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia