U+120F9 "𒃹" Cuneiform Sign Gan2 over Gan2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒃹
U+120F9 "𒃹" Cuneiform Sign Gan2 over Gan2 is a compound cuneiform sign belonging to the Cuneiform Unicode block, which was used in ancient Mesopotamian writing systems such as Sumerian and Akkadian. Specifically, this character represents a ligature formed by stacking two instances of the sign GAN2 (originally denoting a type of agricultural land or a measure) one above the other, likely creating a distinct logographic or syllabic value for administrative or lexical purposes. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for the digital preservation and accurate rendering of this complex sign from cuneiform texts, facilitating modern scholarship in Assyriology and related fields.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+120F9 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Gan2 over Gan2 |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒃹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒃹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x83 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDCF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000120F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udcf9 |