U+121F3 "𒇳" Cuneiform Sign Lal Times Lal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒇳

U+121F3 "𒇳" Cuneiform Sign Lal Times Lal is a compound sign in the Sumero Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the ligature or multiplicative combination of the sign LAL repeated twice, where LAL itself typically signifies concepts such as "to bind," "to weigh," or "to hang" in ancient Mesopotamian writing. This specific character is part of the Cuneiform block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, encoded for use in digital text to accurately render scholarly transliterations and reconstructions of clay tablet inscriptions. It appears in economic, administrative, and lexical texts from the third and second millennia BCE, often used to denote a doubled or intensified form of the LAL sign's underlying semantic or phonetic value, though its exact usage can vary based on context and period.

General Properties

Code Point U+121F3
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Lal Times Lal
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒇳
HTML Hex Encoding 𒇳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x87 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDDF3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000121F3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\uddf3

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