U+120FE "𒃾" Cuneiform Sign Geshtin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒃾
U+120FE "𒃾" Cuneiform Sign Geshtin is a logogram from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system, representing the word for "wine" or "grapevine," as "geshtin" literally translates to "wine" in Sumerian. This sign belongs to the Cuneiform block of the Unicode standard, specifically within the Old Assyrian and Sumerian glyph repertoire, and it is used in transliterations of cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly study of ancient scripts, bridging modern computing with one of humanity's earliest writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+120FE |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Geshtin |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒃾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒃾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x83 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDCFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000120FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udcfe |