U+12105 "ð’„…" Cuneiform Sign Gi4 over Gi4 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+12105 "ð’„…" Cuneiform Sign Gi4 over Gi4 is a compound sign from the Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the stacking of two Gi4 signs, which may indicate a specific phonetic or logographic value related to notions of reed, return, or a reduplicated syllable in ancient Mesopotamian writing. This character belongs to the Cuneiform script block and was used primarily in the third millennium BCE on clay tablets for administrative, literary, and religious texts. Its structure illustrates the cuneiform system's ability to create new signs by overlaying simpler components, often to distinguish homophones or to convey a specialized meaning. Today, it is encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and scholarly study of ancient Near Eastern languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+12105
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Gi4 over Gi4
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒄅
HTML Hex Encoding 𒄅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x84 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDD05
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00012105
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udd05

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