U+122EF "𒋯" Cuneiform Sign Ta Gunu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒋯

U+122EF "𒋯" Cuneiform Sign Ta Gunu is a logographic or syllabic sign from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script, specifically a variant of the basic "TA" sign distinguished by the addition of a "gunu" diacritic, which typically involves extra wedge marks or cross-hatching to modify its phonetic or semantic value. This character was used in the writing of Sumerian and later Akkadian on clay tablets, often appearing in administrative, religious, or literary texts from the late third to first millennium BCE. The "gunu" class of signs indicated a derived or complex reading, potentially altering the pronunciation or meaning of the base "TA" sign in specific lexical or grammatical contexts. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Cuneiform block for digital representation and scholarly study of Mesopotamian languages.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒋯
HTML Hex Encoding 𒋯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x8B 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDEEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000122EF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udeef

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