U+1234E "𒍎" Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Uruda Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𒍎

U+1234E "𒍎" Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Uruda is a specific glyph within the Cuneiform script, an ancient writing system used for multiple languages in the Near East, most notably Sumerian and Akkadian. This character represents a compound sign formed by combining the sign for "URU" (meaning city or settlement) with the sign for "URUDA" (meaning copper or bronze), and it was primarily used to denote a location or object associated with the metalworking or metallurgy of bronze within administrative, economic, or lexical texts. As part of the Unicode Standard, this cuneiform character is encoded in Plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, ensuring its accurate digital representation and scholarly access for research and preservation of ancient Mesopotamian languages and history.

General Properties

Code Point U+1234E
Version Added 5.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Uruda
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒍎
HTML Hex Encoding 𒍎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x8D 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD808 0xDF4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001234E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud808\udf4e

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