U+121C9 "𒇉" Cuneiform Sign Lagab Times Hal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+121C9 "𒇉" Cuneiform Sign Lagab Times Hal is a compound sign from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform writing system, typically representing a phonetic value or logogram formed by combining the general sign LAGAB (meaning "block" or "area") with the sign HAL (meaning "to divide" or "a share"). This particular sign is often associated with the word for "city quarter" or "district" and appears in administrative and economic texts from Mesopotamia, where it designated a specific section of a settlement or a partitioned plot of land. As part of the Cuneiform script encoded in the Unicode Standard, this character helps preserve the complex syllabic and ideographic nature of one of the world’s earliest writing systems, used mainly on clay tablets from around the third millennium BCE.

General Properties

Code Point U+121C9
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Lagab Times Hal
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒇉
HTML Hex Encoding 𒇉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x87 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDDC9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000121C9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\uddc9

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