𐄊 Aegean Number Four

What 𐄊 means

It stands for four in the Aegean numeral system.

𐄊 is one of the number signs used with Linear A and Linear B. In surviving Linear B tablets, numerals in inventories and accounts helped record quantities beside goods.

which scripts used 𐄊?

Its numeral set grew from Linear A and was reused elsewhere.

The earliest known writing on Crete appears on seals by the end of the third millennium BCE. Linear A is securely attested by Middle Minoan IIA, an archaeological period, no later than the end of the nineteenth century BCE under one earlier dating scheme.

Aegean number signs derive from Linear A and were also used in Linear B, which wrote Mycenaean Greek. Lower values from the same set appear in Cypriot syllabary texts. Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A share some shapes and overlapped in use, but the documented number-sign connection runs through Linear A. Within this system, values add together rather than filling decimal places: 𐄊 contributes four.

why does 𐄊 show as a box?

The font used for the text may not contain its glyph.

𐄊 lies in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane. If the active font lacks its glyph, the text renderer may show a box or blank space; that placeholder does not change the character's identity or value.

For direct entry, use a Unicode input method that accepts supplementary-plane values.

Historical and typographic: it fits writing about Aegean numerals and Bronze Age records.

Outside Aegean number writing, 𐄊 is not self-explanatory; pair it with 4 when the quantity matters.