U+109C4 "𐧄" Meroitic Cursive Number Five Unicode Character

U+109C4 "𐧄" Meroitic Cursive Number Five is a numeral from the Meroitic script, which was used to write the Meroitic language spoken in the Kingdom of Kush, a civilization that flourished along the Nile in present-day Sudan from around 300 BCE to 350 CE. This cursive numeral specifically represents the number five, operating within a base-10 system that employed distinct signs for units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, often appearing in administrative, funerary, and economic texts. The character is part of the Meroitic Cursive block in Unicode, which was encoded to support digital preservation and study of this ancient script, distinguishing it from the more formal and geometric Meroitic hieroglyphic form.