What 𒐚 means
Six lots of a sixty-unit measure. GEŠ₂ (gesh2) is the Sumerian unit of sixty; the leading six counts how many units are meant.
Administrative tablets paired numeral series with specific goods and measures.
The wider numeral family appears in fourth-millennium BCE proto-cuneiform, an early administrative writing system. Later scribes used cuneiform and curved numeral forms; the tradition developed over time.
Historical and specialist; in ordinary text it signals a cuneiform reference, not everyday arithmetic.
Read it as six sixties, not the everyday digit 6.
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Who writes 𒐚
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒐚 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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How to type or find 𒐚
- Also called
- 6(GEŠ₂) · 6(geš₂)
- Search it as
- gesh2 · geš₂ · cuneiform numeral · sexagesimal · 360
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒐚\1241ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.