U+1228F "𒊏" Cuneiform Sign Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒊏
U+1228F "𒊏" Cuneiform Sign Ra is a specific glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script, representing the syllable "ra" and used extensively in the writing systems of Mesopotamia for over three millennia. This wedge-shaped character, encoded in the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block, was originally impressed into wet clay tablets with a stylus to record languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite for administrative, literary, and religious purposes. As part of the digital encoding of cuneiform, U+1228F allows scholars and linguists to accurately represent and study this historic sign in modern electronic texts, preserving a vital piece of human cultural heritage for analysis and education.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1228F |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Ra |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒊏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒊏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8A 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDE8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001228F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\ude8f |