U+12038 Cuneiform Sign Ash
U+12038 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+12038 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform AΕ‘ sign, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Epic, it has the following meanings, besides aΕ‘:
- aΕ‘
- dil
- ina
- αΉel
- AΕ
Some special considerations for a single "cuneiform sign" are as follows. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the space for a group of signs (in cuneiform, a group of individual strokes), is called (quadrat)-block. Among cuneiform signs, only a handful of signs (specifically the individual 'strokes', horizontal, vertical, "wedge", 'half-strokes', etc.) are found in single usage. For aΕ‘ specifically, (the full-length, horizontal stroke) its highest usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is for the preposition ina (for in, into, etc.; confer for a specific "ina" usage (by Kovacs), Gilgamesh flood myth#Alternative translations). The specific usage numbers for the sign's meaning in the Epic is as follows: aΕ‘-(4), dil-(3), ina-(284), αΉel-(1), AΕ -(1). The high usage as the preposition may be for space considerations, but it should be considered that the Epic of Gilgamesh was also a "training document" for scribes, over hundreds of years, so the multi-functioning of signs may also have been in issue, (one cuneiform sign substituted for the preposition: i-na, of two signs.)
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 73784 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 80 B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DC 38 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 20 38 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%80%B8 |
HTML hex reference | 𒀸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ββ¬ΒΈ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 36 C5 38 |
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Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN ASH | |
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