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𐧞

meroitic cursive number four thousand

Meroitic Cursive Number Four Thousand

𐧞 means 4,000 in Meroitic cursive writing, a script of the ancient Kushite kingdom. These signs appear in records and inscriptions. This text numeral is not emoji artwork.

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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.

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Why 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

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 109DE, then Alt+X to get 𐧞.
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 four thousand”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 109de, then Enter or Space.
HTML
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CSS
\109DE
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HTML decimal
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HTML hex
𐧞
CSS content
content: "\109DE";
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URL encoded
%F0%90%A7%9E
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JS .length
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