What 𐧴 means
It means eight hundred thousand in the Meroitic number system. Meroitic numerals built larger values by pairing numbers one through nine with rank values; this is eight times one hundred thousand.
Meroitic Cursive was used for general writing in Kush and drew on Egyptian Demotic, a cursive form of Egyptian writing. The earliest dated Meroitic cursive texts are from around 200 BCE. A separate Meroitic hieroglyphic script, based on Egyptian hieroglyphs, was used on royal monuments and temples.
What were Meroitic numerals used for?
They appear in records and inscriptions with quantities. Meroitic numerals occur in accounts, tax records, and measurements; funerary and monumental texts also use them for dates and amounts.
After the fourth century CE, Meroitic was gradually replaced by Nubian; by the sixth century, its scripts had given way to Coptic. This character fits a historical transcription or explanation better than an unmarked modern message.
This is a specialist historical numeral; it fits Meroitic texts and explanations better than an unmarked modern message.
Without Meroitic context, a reader may not recognize it as 800,000.
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1Why does 𐧴 show as a box?
A box means the font or renderer lacks a glyph for this character. Its value is still 800,000; try a font that supports Meroitic Cursive and check the display in your app.
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𐧴\109F4Codes and encoding1 code points
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