Meroitic Cursive Fraction One Half

It means one half in Meroitic Cursive.

Meroitic Cursive used a fraction system based on twelfths. 𐦽 is its sign for one half: a historical number character in writing for the Meroitic language, not a general-purpose fraction sign.

Where was it used?

It belongs to the writing tradition of the Kingdom of Kush.

Meroitic was the language of Kush, a kingdom in the Nile Valley south of Egypt. Its cursive script drew on Demotic, a cursive Egyptian script, and served general writing; a related hieroglyphic script appeared on royal monuments and temples. Meroitic writing is attested by the third century BCE, and the earliest dated cursive text is about 200 BCE.

After the fourth century CE, Nubian gradually replaced Meroitic. By the sixth century, Coptic script—a Greek-derived script also used to write Nubian—had superseded the Meroitic scripts and adopted three Meroitic Cursive signs for Nubian.

Why does 𐦽 display differently?

Fonts and right-to-left layout affect its display.

Meroitic Cursive lines ran almost entirely from right to left. A font without this glyph may show an empty box, and in mixed-direction text the surrounding script can affect where it appears. Fonts also draw the sign in different styles.