U+1227B "𒉻" Cuneiform Sign Pad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒉻
U+1227B "𒉻" Cuneiform Sign Pad is a graphical representation of an ancient Sumerian or Akkadian wedge shaped symbol used in cuneiform script, one of the earliest writing systems developed in Mesopotamia around the late 4th millennium BCE. This specific sign, named Pad, typically conveys the phonetic sound pad or pat in transliteration, and it often appears in economic, administrative, and literary texts inscribed on clay tablets. As part of the Cuneiform block in Unicode, it helps preserve and digitally encode these historically significant characters for modern linguistic research, academic publication, and digital archiving of ancient Near Eastern documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1227B |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Pad |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒉻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒉻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x89 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDE7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001227B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\ude7b |