U+12157 "ð’…—" Cuneiform Sign Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð’…—
U+12157 "ð’…—" Cuneiform Sign Ka is a wedge shaped glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system known as cuneiform, originally used in Mesopotamia from around the late 4th millennium BCE. This particular sign represents the phonetic value "ka" and could also carry the Sumerian logographic meaning for "mouth," making it a versatile symbol in the script. It belongs to the Cuneiform block of the Unicode Standard, which was encoded to allow digital preservation and study of these historic texts, including those on clay tablets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12157 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Ka |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒅗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒅗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x85 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012157 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udd57 |