What 𒐃 means
The Five Ash sign marks five in the AŠ numeral series. In Mesopotamian number notation, the surrounding unit shows what is counted or measured; the sign does not name a unit by itself.
Cuneiform numerals grew from practical record-keeping in ancient Mesopotamia. Early tablets from Uruk, an ancient Mesopotamian city, record quantities and transactions. Fonts may draw the same sign in regional, period, or writing-style forms.
Technical and archival: read it as a numeral within cuneiform notation.
Five gives the amount; the surrounding notation supplies the unit.
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Who writes 𒐃
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒐃 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation 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.
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How to type or find 𒐃
- Also called
- 5(AŠ) · IA₇ · TAB.TAB.AŠ
- Search it as
- AŠ numeral · five dish · Mesopotamian numeral
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒐃\12403Codes and encoding1 code points
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