U+12041 Cuneiform Sign Bad
U+12041 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+12041 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform bad, bat, be, etc. sign is a common multi-use sign in the mid 14th-century BC Amarna letters, and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Epic it also has 5 sumerogram uses (capital letter (majuscule)). From Giorgio Buccellati (Buccellati 1979) 'comparative graphemic analysis' (about 360 cuneiform signs, nos. 1 through no. 598E), of 5 categories of letters, the usage numbers of the bad sign are as follows: Old Babylonian Royal letters (71), OB non-Royal letters (392), Mari letters (2108), Amarna letters (334), Ugarit letters (39).
The following linguistic elements are used for the bad sign in the 12 chapter (Tablets I-Tablet XII) Epic of Gilgamesh:
- bad (not in Epic)
- bat
- be
- mid
- mit
- sun
- til
- ziz
sumerograms:
- BE
- IDIM
- TIL
- ΓΕ
- ZIZ
The following usage numbers for the linguistic elements of sign bad in the Epic are as follows: bad, (0 times), bat, (61), be, (16), mid, (7), mit, (8), sun, (1), til, (11), ziz, (8), BE, (2), IDIM, (2), TIL, (1), ΓΕ , (2), ZIZ, (1).
Instead of a large horizontal, as seen in the (digitized form, but one type of "bad") , the sign is seen in the Amarna letters as composed of two opposite facing (triangles), the wedges. It can be seen here [1], Amarna letter EA 153-(lines 153:4, 11), for "King-Lord-mine", "LUGAL, Be-li-ia", or Be-lΓ-ia", where "bΔlu" is Akkadian for "lord".
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 73793 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 81 81 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DC 41 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 20 41 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%81%81 |
HTML hex reference | 𒁁 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΒΒ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 36 C6 37 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN BAD | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
β | |
β | |
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β | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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β | |
Alphabetic Letter | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
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Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
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not a number | |
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