What 𐄌 means
It served counting in Bronze Age Cretan administration. This Minoan numeral belonged to a record-keeping setting where clay tablets, sealings (clay impressions made with seals) and small clay discs tracked quantities, goods and transactions. As of 2026, Linear A remains undeciphered; Cretan Hieroglyphic was another local writing system, and its resemblance to Egyptian hieroglyphs is not evidence of direct borrowing. Later, Linear B adapted Linear A to write Mycenaean Greek.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐄌 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 𐄌
- Search it as
- Minoan counting · Cretan numeral six · Linear A number signs · Aegean numerals · Bronze Age Cretan accounts
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐄌CSS
\1010CNewComputerModern
In NewComputerModern's
fontsetup, use \aegeannumbersix; the selected font must support Aegean numerals.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐄌
HTML hex
𐄌
CSS content
content: "\1010C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%84%8C
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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.