Anatolian Hieroglyph A033

𔐢 is an Anatolian writing sign; A033 is its catalog label, not a translation. It comes from historical inscriptions, not emoji chat; a box means your font lacks it.

Text symbol

What 𔐢 means

The label identifies the sign, not what it says. Unicode's Names List 18.0 gives no gloss or sound value for A033.

The script grew from pictorial signs in second-millennium BCE Anatolia. By around 1350–1200 BCE, Hittite rulers used its developed forms on seals and monuments to record names, titles, and deeds.

After the Hittite empire, successor states kept carving it in stone after 700 BCE. Most texts are Luwian, an ancient Anatolian language; “Hittite hieroglyphs” is an older name, and a few are Urartian or Hurrian. Lines ran right-to-left or alternated direction (boustrophedon). A Cretan link remains unproven as of 2026.

Historical and specialist; it suits discussion of ancient inscriptions, not chat reactions.

Don't infer a word from its outline.

Part of collections

𔑴

Anatolian Hieroglyphs List (Luwian Sign List)

𔐀

Anatolian Scripts (Luwian Hieroglyphs, Lycian, Lydian, Carian)

Who writes 𔐢

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Don't confuse it with

𓀦

Egyptian Hieroglyph A033

Egyptian A033 is a separate sign; the shared catalog label does not make it Anatolian.

Questions people ask

Why does 𔐢 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Anatolian Hieroglyphs block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.