U+1213E "ð’„¾" Cuneiform Sign Hul2 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1213E "ð’„¾" Cuneiform Sign Hul2 is a specific glyph from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the syllable "hul" or the word for "evil" or "bad," and it belongs to the early writing system used in ancient Mesopotamia primarily for carving into clay tablets with a wedge-shaped stylus. This character is part of the Cuneiform Unicode block, which encodes signs from the standardized Akkadian and Sumerian syllabaries, and it features the characteristic wedge and line arrangements that define the script's visual structure. As a logogram or syllabogram, Hul2 appears in texts ranging from administrative records to literary and religious compositions, offering modern scholars and digital typographers a means to accurately represent ancient languages in electronic documents and databases.

General Properties

Code Point U+1213E
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Hul2
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒄾
HTML Hex Encoding 𒄾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x84 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDD3E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001213E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udd3e

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