What 𐄲 means
It means 80,000 in the Aegean numeral system.
The Aegean whole-number signs derive from Linear A, a Bronze Age script used on Crete. Some early Aegean tablets come from the Middle Minoan period, roughly 2100–1600 BCE; the earliest Knossos tablet may use Cretan hieroglyphs, another script from Crete, rather than Linear A. Linear A remains undeciphered as of 2026.
These number signs were used in Linear B bookkeeping. Clay records tracked goods, weights, measures, inventories, and allocations. Lower-value signs from the same system also appear in the Cypriot syllabary, a writing system used for Greek on Cyprus; that does not establish that 𐄲 itself appears in those texts.
How do I type 𐄲?
Use a platform-specific hexadecimal input method.
It has no ordinary keyboard key. The methods below turn its Unicode value into the character on common desktop setups.
Is 𐄲 a Greek numeral?
No. It belongs to the Aegean numeral system.
Greek Milesian numerals assign number values to letters of the Greek alphabet. 𐄲 is a separate Aegean number sign, so a Greek letter numeral is not a substitute.
As of 2026, it reads as a historical or scholarly reference to Aegean numbers.
A box or blank space points first to missing font coverage, not a different numeral.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐄲 show as a box?
Font coverage. As of 2026, a system without this glyph may show a box, leave a blank, or use a fallback mark; the underlying character is still 𐄲.
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How to type or find 𐄲
- Search it as
- 80k · 80,000 Aegean numeral · Minoan numeral · Linear A numeral · Linear B numeral · Bronze Age number
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐄲\10132Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.