What 𐄖 means
It is the Aegean numeral for seventy.
The Aegean number 70 belongs to a system of whole-number signs used in Bronze Age records around the Aegean Sea. Its use is attested with Linear A by Middle Minoan IIA, a period of Minoan history, by the end of the nineteenth century BCE. Such signs helped record goods, measures, and totals.
As of 2026, Linear A remains undeciphered, but its numeral values can be recognized from repeated accounting patterns. Linear B, the script used for Mycenaean Greek, retained Aegean number signs. Cretan Hieroglyphic has related ways to record numbers and fractions, and later Cypriot scripts show contact with Aegean writing traditions.
Historical and archival; its assigned reading is the quantity seventy.
A box is a missing-glyph display, not a zero or another number.
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 𐄖 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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- 70 · seventy · Aegean 70 · Linear A · Linear B · Minoan numeral · Mycenaean numeral · Bronze Age numeral
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐄖\10116𐄖; it resolves to 𐄖 only where numeric character references are parsed.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.