U+12351 "𒍑" Cuneiform Sign Ush Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒍑
U+12351 "𒍑" Cuneiform Sign Ush is a wedge-shaped glyph from the ancient Mesopotamian writing system, specifically representing the Sumerian word for "male" or "man" and also serving as a determinative for male personal names and divine beings. This sign, transliterated as Ush or Uš, appears in the Cuneiform script's Early Dynastic period through the Neo-Assyrian era, often used in royal inscriptions and administrative texts to denote gender or mark a deity such as the god Nergal. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for modern digital representation of this historically significant script, preserving the visual form of a symbol that was fundamental to recording the social and religious hierarchy of ancient Sumer and Akkad.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12351 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Ush |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒍑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒍑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8D 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDF51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012351 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udf51 |