U+1220D "𒈍" Cuneiform Sign Lu2 Times Nu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒈍

U+1220D "𒈍" Cuneiform Sign Lu2 Times Nu is a specific glyph from the ancient Mesopotamian writing system known as cuneiform, which was used to write languages such as Sumerian and Akkadian. This particular sign is a compound logogram formed by combining the cuneiform signs for "lu2" (meaning person or man) and "nu" (meaning not or a negation particle), and its primary use in Sumerian texts is to represent the word "nu," specifically acting as a phonetic or semantic indicator for negation. The character belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of the Unicode standard and is encoded to facilitate the digital preservation and scholarly study of cuneiform scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1220D
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Lu2 Times Nu
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒈍
HTML Hex Encoding 𒈍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x88 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDE0D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001220D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\ude0d

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