U+1219F "𒆟" Cuneiform Sign Kesh2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒆟
U+1219F "𒆟" Cuneiform Sign Kesh2 is a specific glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the name of the city of Kesh, a significant religious and political center in ancient Mesopotamia. This sign is a composite logogram that typically combines elements for "city" or "place" with a phonetic or semantic indicator, and it appears in texts such as hymns, economic records, and royal inscriptions dating back to the third millennium BCE. As part of the Cuneiform block in Unicode, it allows for the digital preservation and scholarly encoding of this historic writing system, facilitating research in Assyriology and linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1219F |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Kesh2 |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒆟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒆟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x86 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDD9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001219F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udd9f |