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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 [U+2184 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C]

U+2183, Ↄ
ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED

[U+2182]
Number Forms
[U+2184]

Translingual

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Number

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(lower case )

  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 isLondini xiv Julii Anglorum CIↃ.DC.XIX.
    3. IↃↃ — 5,000
    4. CCIↃↃ — 10,000

Synonyms

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Latin

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

Etymology

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

Design

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

Pronunciation

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Letter

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(lower case )

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