U+12040 "𒁀" Cuneiform Sign Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒁀
U+12040 "𒁀" Cuneiform Sign Ba is a specific glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system known as cuneiform, which was used in Mesopotamia from around the 4th millennium BCE. This sign represents the syllable "ba" in the cuneiform script and was inscribed on clay tablets using a wedge shaped stylus, forming part of a vast corpus of logographic and syllabic symbols. It falls within the Unicode block "Cuneiform," which includes signs from the early Sumerian period through later Assyrian and Babylonian adaptations, allowing modern digital text to preserve and display these historical characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12040 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Ba |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒁀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒁀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x81 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012040 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udc40 |