U+122BA "𒊺" Cuneiform Sign She Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒊺

U+122BA "𒊺" Cuneiform Sign She is a wedge shaped symbol from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system that represents the phonetic syllable "she" or the logogram for grain, barley, and sustenance in general. This sign appears in the Cuneiform block of the Unicode standard, encoding a character originally impressed into clay tablets in Mesopotamia around 3200 BCE. In its various uses across texts, "𒊺" functioned both as a standalone word for barley, a staple crop, and as a component in compound signs, reflecting the economic and administrative importance of agriculture in early civilization.

General Properties

Code Point U+122BA
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign She
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒊺
HTML Hex Encoding 𒊺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x8A 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDEBA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000122BA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udeba

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