U+12337 "𒌷" Cuneiform Sign Uru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒌷
U+12337 "𒌷" Cuneiform Sign Uru is a glyph from the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing system known as cuneiform, inscribed on clay tablets in Mesopotamia over four thousand years ago. This sign represents the syllable "uru" and carries the core meaning of "city" or "town," often functioning as a syllabic component or a determinative in logographic writing to denote urban settlements. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard's Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform block allows modern digital texts, scholarly works, and font systems to accurately represent this historic symbol, preserving its cultural and linguistic heritage for contemporary use in fields like archaeology, philology, and digital humanities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12337 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Uru |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒌷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒌷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8C 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDF37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012337 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udf37 |