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

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