U+1200E "𒀎" Cuneiform Sign Ab Times Gan2 Tenu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1200E "𒀎" Cuneiform Sign Ab Times Gan2 Tenu is a specific glyph from the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script, representing a composite sign formed by combining the sign "AB" (often denoting a source or building) with a "GAN2" (field or area) component modified by a "tenu" or slender diagonal wedge, likely indicating a phonetic or semantic nuance in Sumerian or Akkadian writing. This character belongs to the Cuneiform Unicode block, which encodes the wedge shaped symbols used primarily on clay tablets for administrative, literary, and religious texts from the third millennium BCE. Because cuneiform signs often carry multiple readings depending on context, "𒀎" may serve as a syllabic value or a logogram in specific scribal traditions. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and scholarly analysis of these ancient writing systems, bridging modern computing with historical linguistics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𒀎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𒀎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x92 0x80 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD808 0xDC0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001200E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud808\udc0e |
Unicode Properties