U+109E9 "𐧩" Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty Thousand Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

𐧩
Source: Noto Sans Meroitic Source: Browser Default

U+109E9 "𐧩" Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty Thousand is a numeric symbol from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the Kingdom of Kush (ancient Nubia) between approximately the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE to write the Meroitic language. This character represents the specific numerical value of sixty thousand, forming part of a sophisticated decimal numeric system that combined units for tens, hundreds, thousands, and higher multiples. In Meroitic Cursive, numbers were typically written in a right-to-left order, and such large numerals were used primarily for administrative, economic, and monumental inscriptions. The character itself resembles a stylized ligature or cursive symbol, distinct from the more angular Meroitic Hieroglyphic numerals, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the preservation and digital study of this relatively undeciphered ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point
U+109E9
Name
Meroitic Cursive Number Sixty Thousand

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
𐧩
HTML Hex Encoding
𐧩
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x90 0xA7 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD802 0xDDE9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000109E9
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud802\udde9