U+12269 "𒉩" Cuneiform Sign Nun Tenu Unicode Character

U+12269 "𒉩" Cuneiform Sign Nun Tenu is a specific glyph from the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script, representing a variant of the sign "NUN" that features a tenu or "thin" stroke, often indicating a phonetic or orthographic distinction in Sumerian or Akkadian writing. This character belongs to the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes thousands of wedge-shaped characters used for over three millennia across various languages of the ancient Near East. Typically inscribed on clay tablets, the Nun Tenu sign could function as a syllabic value or a determinative, and its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation, scholarly research, and accurate transcription of cuneiform texts without relying on manual reconstruction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+12269
Version Added	5.0
Name	Cuneiform Sign Nun Tenu
Block	Cuneiform
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𒉩
HTML Hex Encoding	𒉩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x92 0x89 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD808 0xDE69
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00012269
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud808\ude69

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