Aegean Number Eight Thousand

It marks one additive value: 8,000.

The Aegean whole-number signs are traced to Linear A, a Bronze Age script used on Crete. Linear A is attested from Middle Minoan IIA by the end of the nineteenth century BCE; its written language remains unidentified as of 2026. Cretan Hieroglyphic was a separate Cretan script from an overlapping period.

The Minoan bookkeeping signs are additive: each contributes its own value, and they are written largest to smallest. They record commodities, quantities, and measures on clay tablets and sealings—clay impressions used in recordkeeping. Linear B adapted this writing tradition to record early Greek; its records use units of weight and capacity where Linear A uses fractions. A related Cypriot system preserves at least the lower numeral signs.

Why does 𐄩 show as a box?

Your font or app cannot draw its glyph.

Unicode identifies the character, but the font draws its visible form. If the active font lacks this rare sign, fallback may show a box, a box with a question mark, or blank space. Fonts can draw different outlines without changing the value.

UTF-16 represents this supplementary-plane character with a surrogate pair: two 16-bit code units. Software that counts those units instead of Unicode characters can split or miscount it.