U+1240F Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U
U+1240F was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Letter Number and is mainly used in the Cuneiform script. The codepoint has the numeric valueΒ 4.
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+1240F 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 |
|---|---|
| NΒΊ | 74767 |
| UTF-8 | F0 92 90 8F |
| UTF-16 | D8 09 DC 0F |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 24 0F |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%92%90%8F |
| HTML hex reference | 𒐏 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΒΒ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 37 AA 31 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 5.0 (2006) | |
| CUNEIFORM NUMERIC SIGN FOUR U | |
| β | |
| Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation | |
| Letter Number | |
| Cuneiform | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| β | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| β | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
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| β | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Any | |
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| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
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| None | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| β | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Yes | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| Yes | |
| β | |
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| β | |
| β | |
| Other Letter | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| β | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| numeric | |
| 4 | |
| Cuneiform Numeric Sign Four U | |
| R |