What 𐄎 means
Eight — a value, not a letter. Aegean numbers were additive and base-ten: signs set side by side add together.
It served palace accounts — on clay tablets, sealings and ritual objects — in Linear A, Minoan Crete's undeciphered script, and later in Linear B, which wrote early Greek.
The value is eight either way; the surrounding signs say whose ledger you are reading.
Specialist and historical — Aegean scripts, not everyday arithmetic.
If it appears as a box, the font lacks this glyph.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐄎 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.
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How to type or find 𐄎
- Search it as
- linear a · linear b · aegean numerals · minoan numbers · mycenaean numbers · number eight symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐄎CSS
\1010EUnicode input
In a Unicode-aware editor insert U1010E; in HTML use 𐄎.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐄎
HTML hex
𐄎
CSS content
content: "\1010E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%84%8E
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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.