What 𒑜 means
It means five-sixths in cuneiform number writing.
Sumerian and Babylonian scribes used it by the late third millennium BCE. It grew from Sumerian and Akkadian weight notation and served other measures. “Dish” is a sign-series label.
In the Old Babylonian period, scribes also wrote fractions with base-60 place value, where position changes value in groups of sixty. Older measure signs stayed in tables and exercises. Written forms vary across historical periods and scribes.
Can I send 𒑜 as a fraction?
Only with a clear cuneiform context.
In messages about cuneiform texts or ancient math, it carries its fraction value. Elsewhere, readers may miss that reading; explain the sign or write 5/6 in familiar digits.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒑜 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.
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- 5/6 · cuneiform fraction · Babylonian fraction
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𒑜\1245CCodes and encoding1 code points
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