U+12311 "𒌑" Cuneiform Sign U2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒌑
U+12311 "𒌑" Cuneiform Sign U2 is a symbol from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system known as cuneiform, which was used in Mesopotamia from around the late 4th millennium BCE. This particular sign represents the phonetic value "u2" and is often associated with the concept of "plant" or "vegetation" in Sumerian, where it can also denote the word for "grass" or "herb." Carved into clay tablets with a wedge-shaped stylus, this character is part of the Cuneiform block in Unicode, preserving a fragment of one of humanity's earliest known forms of written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12311 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign U2 |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒌑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒌑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8C 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDF11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012311 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udf11 |