U+12041 "𒁁" Cuneiform Sign Bad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒁁
U+12041 "𒁁" Cuneiform Sign Bad is a specific character from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia for writing the Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages on clay tablets. This sign, known as BAD, represents a basic syllabic or logographic element in the cuneiform system, often carrying the meaning of "to be bad" or "evil" in Sumerian, or serving as a phonetic component in compound words. It belongs to the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block of Unicode, preserving a small but significant piece of one of humanity's earliest writing systems for modern digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12041 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Bad |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒁁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒁁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x81 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDC41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012041 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udc41 |