U+12047 "𒁇" Cuneiform Sign Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒁇
U+12047 "𒁇" Cuneiform Sign Bar is a cuneiform character that belongs to the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing systems used in Mesopotamia. This particular sign, known as BAR, has a wedge shaped form composed of a vertical vertical wedge and a horizontal wedge, and it functioned as both a syllabic sign representing the sound "bar" and as a logogram for concepts such as "to divide" or "outside" in various contexts. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Cuneiform block, which was added to support the digital representation and modern study of these historic scripts, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to accurately preserve and analyze texts from one of the world's earliest known written languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12047 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Bar |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒁇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒁇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x81 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDC47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012047 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udc47 |