U+1228B "ð’Š‹" Cuneiform Sign Pirig Times Kal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1228B "ð’Š‹" Cuneiform Sign Pirig Times Kal is a specific compound glyph from the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, representing a ligature formed by combining the sign for "Pirig" (often associated with a lion or a powerful creature) with the sign for "Kal" (which can mean precious, strong, or to be difficult). This character belongs to the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block in Unicode, which encodes archaisms and variants of scribal traditions used in Mesopotamia around the third millennium BCE. Its compound nature suggests a specialized meaning, likely used in administrative, lexical, or religious texts to denote a nuanced concept or a specific word that required the merging of these two symbolic elements for greater clarity or phonetic precision. As a relatively rare and visually complex sign, it highlights the semantic flexibility and logographic richness of the cuneiform writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+1228B
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Pirig Times Kal
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒊋
HTML Hex Encoding 𒊋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x8A 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDE8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001228B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\ude8b

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