U+12000 Cuneiform Sign A
U+12000 was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Cuneiform script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+12000 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform sign ๐ (DIล , DIล OVER DIล ) for a, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh the sumerogram A, Akkadian for mรป, "water", which is used in the Gilgamesh flood myth, Chapter XI of the Epic, or other passages. The sign is also used extensively in the Amarna letters.
Cuneiform a is the most common of the four vowels in the Akkadian language, a, e, i, and u. All vowels can be interchangeable, depending on the scribe, though spellings of Akkadian words in dictionaries, will be formalized, and typically: unstressed, a 'long-vowel', or thirdly, a 'combined' vowel (often spelled with two signs (same vowel, ending the first sign, and starting the next sign), thus combined into the single vowel, รข, รช, รฎ, or รป.). Cuneiform a is the most common of the four vowels, as can be shown by usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the usage numbers being (รบ (u, no. 2) is more common than u, (no. 1), which has additional usages, numeral "10", and "and", "but", etc.): a-(1369), e-(327), i-(698), รบ-(493). (For u, only: u-(166)); The usage for a, includes the usage for Akkadian a-na, (ana), the preposition, "for", "to", etc., about 250 usages (therefore usage: 1369โ250).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nยบ | 73728 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 80 80 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DC 00 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 20 00 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%80%80 |
HTML hex reference | 𒀀 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | รฐโโฌโฌ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN A | |
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