U+12232 "𒈲" Cuneiform Sign Mush Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒈲
U+12232 "𒈲" Cuneiform Sign Mush is a glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system known as cuneiform, which was used in Mesopotamia from around the late 4th millennium BCE. This particular sign represents the word "mush," meaning serpent or snake, and it often appears in royal inscriptions and mythological texts, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, where it can denote the serpent that steals the plant of immortality. As part of the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block, it allows modern digital preservation and study of these ancient scripts, bridging thousands of years of linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12232 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Mush |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒈲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒈲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x88 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDE32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012232 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\ude32 |