What 𐦶 means
It marks a whole syllable, not just a consonant. Scholars transliterate its value as to. Most Meroitic consonants carry an unwritten a; four syllables have dedicated signs.
Meroitic was spoken in Kush. The earliest known Meroitic cursive text dates to about 200 BCE.
By the sixth century CE, the Meroitic language had gradually given way to Nubian, and Coptic writing had superseded the Meroitic scripts, borrowing three cursive signs to write Nubian. The outline of 𐦶 depends on the font.
Who writes 𐦶
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐦶 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 𐦶
- Search it as
- Meroitic cursive · Meroitic script · Meroitic hieroglyphic letter to · Kush · Egyptian Demotic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐦶\109B6Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.