What 𒐍 means
It marks eight in the Sumerian 8(diš) counting series.
In scholarly notation, 8 gives the value and diš names the kind of counting sign. _Ussu_ is the Sumerian word for eight; Akkadian writing also borrowed the word.
Mesopotamian proto-cuneiform—the earliest cuneiform writing—used numbers by the late fourth millennium BCE. Early systems counted objects, measured capacity, and tracked time. The same 8(diš) value can have two encoded stacking forms, 𒐍 and 𒑄; period and style help explain the choice.
A specialist numeral; outside a cuneiform number system, its value is easy to miss.
Read it as eight only when the surrounding text establishes a cuneiform number system.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𒐍 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.
How to type 𒐍
𒐍\1240DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.