U+1209E "ð’‚ž" Cuneiform Sign Eren Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð’‚ž
U+1209E "ð’‚ž" Cuneiform Sign Eren is a specific glyph from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the syllable or logogram "eren", which in ancient Mesopotamian contexts often referred to a type of cedar tree or the concept of sacred cedar wood. This character belongs to the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block within Unicode, encoded to preserve the visual shape of the wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets by scribes thousands of years ago. It holds philological importance for scholars deciphering economic, administrative, and literary texts from sites like Uruk and Nippur, where such signs were used to denote valuable timber or materials associated with temple construction and royal inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1209E |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Eren |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒂞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒂞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x82 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDC9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001209E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udc9e |