What 𝋭 means
Three dots and two bars make thirteen. Each dot means one; each bar five. Related bar-and-dot forms appear in Maya, Zapotec and Isthmian records from about 600 BCE to 900 CE across Mesoamerica, the ancient region from southern Mexico to Central America. Scholars see cross-language borrowing, but its route is unclear.
At San Bartolo, Guatemala, a painted date from around 300–200 BCE is the earliest securely dated Maya-region evidence of the 260-day calendar. Numerals counted quantities and time; the 260-day ritual calendar paired 13 numbers with 20 day names for divination. The Dresden Codex, a Maya book, uses number tables for rituals and astronomy. Indigenous Maya communities still use this calendar, noted in a 2022 study. After about 1300, Mixtec and Aztec records used dot-only numerals for 1–13.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why does 𝋭 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Mayan Numerals 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.
More like this
8
Collections with 𝋭
1
How to type or find 𝋭
- Search it as
- mayan 13 · maya numbers · maya dot bar · maya calendar
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𝋭\1D2EDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.