U+121A7 "𒆧" Cuneiform Sign Kish Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒆧

U+121A7 "𒆧" Cuneiform Sign Kish is a logogram from the ancient cuneiform script, specifically representing the city of Kish, one of the most important and early urban centers in Sumerian Mesopotamia. This sign was used in cuneiform texts to denote the city's name, often in economic, administrative, and royal inscriptions that referenced Kish's political and religious significance. It belongs to the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform repertoire and is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block, which preserves the written legacy of languages like Sumerian and Akkadian. The sign's visual form, with its wedge shaped impressions, reflects the characteristic stylus marks pressed into clay tablets by scribes over four thousand years ago, making it a direct digital representation of a key element of ancient Near Eastern history.

General Properties

Code Point U+121A7
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Kish
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒆧
HTML Hex Encoding 𒆧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x86 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDDA7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000121A7
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udda7

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