U+1228A "ð’ŠŠ" Cuneiform Sign Pirig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð’ŠŠ
U+1228A "ð’ŠŠ" Cuneiform Sign Pirig is a Sumerian logogram and syllabogram used in ancient cuneiform writing, specifically representing a lion or a powerful beast, often functioning as a determinative or phonetic element in words related to strength or ferocity. This sign is part of the early and complex pictographic stage of cuneiform before evolving into more abstract wedge shaped forms, and it appears in texts from the third millennium BCE onward, including royal inscriptions and literary works. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block, preserving a visual link to the original animal head shape that characterized the sign's origins.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1228A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Pirig |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒊊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒊊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8A 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001228A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\ude8a |