U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
U+12049 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+12049 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform bi sign, also pΓ, and used for other syllabic forms, as well as a sumerogram, is a common use syllabic and alphabetic cuneiform sign used in both the mid-14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Amarna letters, it is sometimes used for the spelling of the archers (Egyptian pitati), 'pΓ-t(x)-t(x)', an often requested need from the Pharaoh in the vassal state sub-corpus of the letters.
As a sumerogram, (capital letter (majuscule)), sign bi is used for KAΕ , Akkadian language for "Ε‘ikΔru", beer.
The following linguistic elements for bi are used in the Epic:
- bΓ©
- bi
- gaΕ‘
- kaΕ‘
- pΓ
- KAΕ , sumerogram: "beer"
The bi sign's usage numbers in the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows: bΓ©-(25 times), bi-(190), gaΕ‘-(1), kaΕ‘-(12), pΓ-(2), KAΕ -(1).
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 73801 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 81 89 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DC 49 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 20 49 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%81%89 |
HTML hex reference | 𒁉 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΒβ° |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN BI | |
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Cuneiform | |
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Other | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
β | |
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β | |
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not a number | |
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