U+12310 Cuneiform Sign U Over U U Reversed Over U Reversed
U+12310 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+12310 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Winkelhaken (German: [ΛvΙͺΕkΙlΛhaΛkΙn], "angular hook"), also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in Akkadian cuneiform. It was realized by pressing the point of the stylus into the clay.
A single Winkelhaken corresponds to the sign U (Borger 1981 nr. 411, Borger 2003 nr. 661), encoded in Unicode at code point U+1230B π.
other signs consisting of Winkelhaken:
- A Glossenkeil (Borger nr. 378) is a cuneiform character, consisting of either two Winkelhaken (U+12471 π±), or of two parallel short diagonal wedges (U+12472 π², similar to GAM), Borger 2003 nr. 592, which serves as a sort of punctuation, as it were as quote sign, marking foreign words or names, or as separation mark, transliterated as a colon ':'.
- two Winkelhaken, MAN, XX "20", Borger 2003 nr. 708
- three Winkelhaken, EΕ , XXX "30", Borger 2003 nr. 711, U+1230D π
- four Winkelhaken, NIMIN, XL "40", Borger 2003 nr. 712, U+1240F π
- four Winkelhaken, two of them reversed MAΕ GI, BARGI, Borger 2003 nr. 713, U+12310 π
- five Winkelhaken, NINNU, L "50", Borger 2003 nr. 714, U+12410 π
- six Winkelhaken, LX "60", Borger 2003 nr. 715, U+12411 π
- seven Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 716, U+12412 π
- eight Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 717, U+12413 π
- nine Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 718, U+12414 π
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 74512 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 8C 90 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DF 10 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 23 10 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%8C%90 |
HTML hex reference | 𒌐 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΕΒ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 37 90 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN U OVER U U REVERSED OVER U REVERSED | |
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