U+12102 "ð’„‚" Cuneiform Sign Gi Times U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12102 "ð’„‚" Cuneiform Sign Gi Times U is a glyph from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, specifically a compound sign formed by combining the signs for GI and U, where "times" indicates that the two signs are layered or superimposed rather than written sequentially. This character was used in ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets as part of the logo-syllabic writing system, where it could represent a specific phonetic syllable or a logogram for a particular word, depending on the context. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Cuneiform block allows digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script, ensuring that such complex signs remain accessible for academic research and linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12102 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Gi Times U |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒄂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒄂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x84 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDD02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012102 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udd02 |