U+1208E "ð’‚Ž" Cuneiform Sign E2 Times A Plus Ha Plus Da Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1208E "ð’‚Ž" Cuneiform Sign E2 Times A Plus Ha Plus Da is a complex composite sign from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block. This specific glyph represents a ligature formed by combining the sign for E2 (meaning house or temple) with the signs A, Ha, and Da, reflecting the scribal practice of creating logograms or determinatives by stacking or merging multiple phonetic or semantic elements into a single cuneiform character. Such compound signs were used in administrative, legal, and religious texts in ancient Mesopotamia, where they often encoded specific words or names that standard syllable-based writing could not directly represent.

General Properties

Code Point U+1208E
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign E2 Times A Plus Ha Plus Da
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒂎
HTML Hex Encoding 𒂎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x82 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDC8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001208E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udc8e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Cuneiform
Script Extensions Cuneiform
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter