What 𐧤 means
It marks the ten-thousand rank. Signs one through nine combine with rank signs to form larger values.
General writing in Kush, south of Egypt, used Meroitic Cursive, shaped by Demotic, an Egyptian cursive script. Its numerals echo late hieratic writing, also cursive, but are no simple copy. They run right to left. Akinidad’s stone inscription preserves the system in the late first century BCE.
Meroitic scripts date from around the second century BCE to the fourth century CE. After the fourth century, Nubian gradually replaced the language; by the sixth, Coptic had replaced the scripts, borrowing three signs to write Nubian.
A historical number sign with specialist context.
Without numeral context, its value is not self-evident.
Who writes 𐧤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐧤 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.
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How to type or find 𐧤
- Search it as
- Meroitic 10000 · Meroitic numeral · ten thousand sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐧤\109E4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.