Scruple ℈
Symbol Meaning
Scruple is an antique measurement unit, which equals 1,137 grams. Now it makes perfect sense why being “scrupulous” is a synonym of being precise and accurate. Try measuring weight and not missing each thousandth of a gram without modern electronic scales!
To refer to Scruple in writing, a special symbol is used. It looks like a cyrillic letter “Э”. Luckily, this symbol is available in Unicode as part of the Letterlike Symbols2100–214F . Take it to your treatise on antiquity, your historical article, or scientific dissertation.
The symbol “Scruple” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Scruple |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2108 |
| Simple case change | 2108 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 88 | 226 132 136 | 14845064 | 11100010 10000100 10001000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 08 | 33 8 | 8456 | 00100001 00001000 |
| UTF-16LE | 08 21 | 8 33 | 2081 | 00001000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 08 | 0 0 33 8 | 8456 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00001000 |
| UTF-32LE | 08 21 00 00 | 8 33 0 0 | 136380416 | 00001000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |