Meroitic Cursive Letter Se

𐦕 is its distinct hieroglyphic counterpart.

Meroitic was the language of Kush, an ancient kingdom in what is now Sudan. Cursive grew from Demotic, an Egyptian script used for everyday writing; a separate hieroglyphic script, influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, served formal inscriptions. They are distinct scripts, not interchangeable fonts.

Meroitic writing appeared with Kush’s rise in the third century BCE; the earliest dated cursive text, naming King Arnekhamani, is from around 200 BCE. After the fourth century CE, Nubian gradually replaced Meroitic; by the sixth century, Coptic script had borrowed three cursive signs for Nubian. As of 2026, the Meroitic language remains partly understood. A box usually means the font lacks 𐦱.