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meroitic cursive number five thousand

Meroitic Cursive Number Five Thousand

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𐧟 marks five thousand in Meroitic cursive, a script used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Its numerals appear in records, measures, dates and funerary objects. Meroitic cursive drew partly on Demotic, a handwritten form of ancient Egyptian.

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What 𐧟 means

It marked a quantity of five thousand.

Meroitic cursive was developing by the third century BCE; its earliest dated text is about 200 BCE. A related hieroglyphic form was used for monumental inscriptions. Meroitic writing was giving way to Nubian by the fourth century CE; Coptic writing had replaced it by the sixth century CE.

Who writes 𐧟

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𐧟 show as a box?

A missing font is the likely cause. As of 2026, a browser or installed font without Meroitic Cursive support can show a box.

How to type or find 𐧟

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5000 · Meroitic 5000 · Kushite numeral · Meroitic numerals
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Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 109DF, then AltX to get 𐧟.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “meroitic cursive number five thousand”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 109df, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐧟
CSS
\109DF
Unicode input
In an editor with Unicode entry, enter 109DF as a hexadecimal code point; the shortcut depends on the editor.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐧟
HTML hex
𐧟
CSS content
content: "\109DF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%A7%9F
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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