Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty

In Meroitic Cursive numerals, it stands for sixty. The Meroitic 60 sign belongs to the numeral system of ancient Kush, the kingdom centered in present-day Sudan. The system had signs for values including tens, hundreds, and thousands.

The Meroitic cursive hand drew partly on Egyptian Demotic, a script used for everyday writing in Egypt. The earliest identified cursive text dates to about 200 BCE and names King Arnekhamani. This hand likely served commercial and administrative needs; surviving texts include accounts, labels, ostraca (pottery or stone pieces used for writing), religious graffiti, funerary texts, and stone inscriptions.

Meroitic cursive was the general-use hand; a separate hieroglyphic Meroitic script appeared on royal and temple texts. Later Coptic writing, a Greek-based script used for the Egyptian language, adopted three signs from Meroitic cursive. There is a numbering wrinkle: a 2009 Unicode proposal said numeral signs for 60 were not yet known, while the Unicode 16.0 chart assigns 𐧎 the value sixty. That assignment gives a Unicode value, not a date or proof of an ancient inscription using this exact sign.

How can I type 𐧎?

Use a Unicode-aware input method; no ordinary key is dedicated to it. Enter U+109CE if your input method accepts Unicode code points.

If it appears as a box or blank, display is font-dependent: the chosen font needs Meroitic Cursive coverage, and the app needs to handle right-to-left text and shaping.