U+109CC "𐧌" Meroitic Cursive Number Forty Unicode Character

U+109CC "𐧌" Meroitic Cursive Number Forty is a numeral from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day Sudan) between roughly the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE. This specific character represents the number forty, part of a decimal numeric system that utilized both cursive and hieroglyphic forms in Meroitic writing. The Meroitic Cursive script was primarily employed for everyday administrative and accounting purposes, alongside religious texts, and its numerals reflect a sophisticated method of recording quantities. As part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, this character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2014, helping preserve access to a writing system that historians and linguists are still working to fully decipher.