What 𒑦 means
It records two-thirds within the Elamite system of cuneiform numbers.
An Elamite two-thirds sign had a practical role in accounts: it marked a fractional amount. The wider numerical setting includes Proto-Elamite bookkeeping, an earlier linear writing system used on clay tablets in Susiana (southwestern Iran) and the Iranian highlands around 3050–2900 BCE. That date belongs to the broader accounting tradition, not this exact cuneiform sign.
Elamite and Mesopotamian numerical systems developed alongside and partly borrowed from one another, but they were not interchangeable; the same fraction could have a different sign in another tradition.
How do I type 𒑦?
Use Unicode-aware input, such as HTML or a hex-entry tool.
A standard keyboard layout does not provide a direct key for this sign. The HTML and Unicode-hex methods give you a precise way to enter it.
Specialist and archival; outside work with cuneiform numbers, it reads as a deliberate ancient-writing reference.
For an ordinary fraction, write 2/3; 𒑦 belongs to a specific historical number system.
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Questions people ask
1Why is 𒑦 showing as a box?
The active font lacks a glyph for this Cuneiform character. A font or viewer with Cuneiform coverage can display it; the character itself remains the same.
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- Also called
- Elamite two-thirds sign · 2/3(disz)~e
- Search it as
- 2/3 · two-thirds · Elamite fraction · fraction sign · cuneiform fraction · 2/3 cuneiform
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒑦\12466𒑦 in HTML.12466 in a Unicode-aware hex-entry tool.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.