What 𐝆 means
It marks half of a written quantity.
Linear A used signs for syllables or words alongside number marks; A707 J belongs to quantity notation.
How does it follow an amount?
It follows the quantity, including inside a total.
On HT 13, a wine tablet from Haghia Triada, it follows entries read as 5½ and 27½, and appears in a total of 130½.
The earliest Linear A records date to around 1800 BCE. Minoans on Crete used clay tablets to track palace transactions; inscriptions on stone, metal and painted pottery served cultic or practical purposes.
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Who writes 𐝆
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐝆 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 𐝆
- Search it as
- A707 J · Linear A half sign · Linear A fraction · half sign · one half
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐝆\10746Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.