What 𐧅 means
It stood for six. The earliest dated Meroitic cursive text is c. 200 BCE; the latest is 410–20 CE. These dates belong to the script, not this numeral alone.
Meroitic cursive was used for records. It drew partly on Demotic, a handwritten Egyptian script; the Meroitic six closely matches a Ptolemaic Demotic form (332–186 BCE). Hieroglyphic Meroitic was formal; numbers appear only in cursive.
By the sixth century CE, Coptic writing had adopted three Meroitic cursive signs to represent Nubian.
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Who writes 𐧅
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1Why does 𐧅 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Meroitic Cursive block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𐧅
- Also called
- Meroitic numeral six
- Search it as
- Meroitic six · Meroitic numerals · Kushite numerals · Meroe script
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐧅\109C5Codes and encoding1 code points
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