U+109C0 "𐧀" Meroitic Cursive Number One Unicode Character

U+109C0 "𐧀" Meroitic Cursive Number One is a numeral from the Meroitic script, an ancient writing system used in the Kingdom of Kush, which flourished along the Nile River in present-day Sudan. This specific glyph represents the numerical value of one in the cursive form of Meroitic, which was a simplified, everyday script distinct from the more formal hieroglyphic version. Archaeologists and historians rely on such characters to decipher economic and administrative records from Meroitic civilization, as these numerals appear on ostraca and temple inscriptions to denote quantities or dates. As part of the Meroitic Cursive block in the Unicode Standard, it helps preserve and digitize an ancient African writing system for modern scholarship.