U+109C7 "𐧇" Meroitic Cursive Number Eight Unicode Character

U+109C7 "𐧇" Meroitic Cursive Number Eight is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan, from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. This script, derived from Egyptian hieratic writing, was employed for administrative and everyday written records, and its numeric system utilized distinct signs like this one to represent quantities. The symbol itself, meaning the number eight, appears as a stylized cursive mark that reflects the flowing, connected writing style of the script, distinct from the more angular Meroitic hieroglyphic forms. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at version 7.0 in 2014 ensures that this piece of African linguistic heritage can be digitally preserved and used in modern text processing.