Chorasmian Number Three

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Chorasmian runs right to left, though some inscriptions are vertical. Unicode represents the script's connected writing style; a font without Chorasmian coverage may show a missing-character box.

What does Chorasmian number three mean?

It represents the number three in the Chorasmian system.

Chorasmian has standalone signs for one through four and additive combinations for five through nine; some surviving spellings repeat the sign for one. Inscriptions show different groupings, so the written sequence can vary for the same value.

Where did the Chorasmian writing system develop?

It developed in Chorasmia, a Central Asian region around the lower Amu Darya River. Its script descended from Imperial Aramaic, an official writing tradition carried into the region by the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Chorasmian numeral notation also has a documented connection to Aramaic systems.

An Aramaic-script word at Koĭ-Krylgan-kala may date to the 4th–2nd centuries BCE; two clay-vessel inscriptions are tentatively dated to the 2nd–1st centuries BCE. These are early regional texts, not a date for this numeral itself.

Old Chorasmian appears on coins and on wood and parchment from about the end of the 2nd century CE. Later inscriptions, often lists of names and dates, include dates on Tok-Kala bone boxes (ossuaries) from about 616–711 CE; inscribed silver vessels have also been found near Perm in the Ural region. By the 11th–14th centuries, Chorasmian was written in a modified Arabic script.