What 𐧞 means
It represents four thousand. Meroitic numerals use decimal ranks: ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands.
The earliest dated Meroitic cursive text is from around 200 BCE; it names King Arnekhamani. Cursive grew partly from Demotic, a cursive Egyptian script. A separate Meroitic hieroglyphic script followed for temple inscriptions.
What did Meroitic numerals record?
They recorded amounts, dates, and measures. Meroitic numerals appear in accounting, measurement, funerary, and royal-monument texts. They occur only in cursive Meroitic. As of 2026, surviving evidence shows no arithmetic use.
Text glyph; display needs a font with Meroitic coverage.
Outside Meroitic writing, gloss its value.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𐧞 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.
How to type 𐧞
𐧞\109DECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
