U+12372 "𒍲" Cuneiform Sign Amar Times Kug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒍲
U+12372 "𒍲" Cuneiform Sign Amar Times Kug is a complex logogram from the ancient Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform writing system, composed by combining the signs for "Amar" (meaning young bull or calf) and "Kug" (meaning holy or pure) to represent a specific divine or sacred concept. This character belongs to the early Bronze Age script used in Mesopotamia and was typically employed in economic, administrative, or religious texts on clay tablets. Its encoded inclusion in Unicode supports digital preservation and scholarly analysis of cuneiform inscriptions, allowing modern researchers to accurately represent this rare ligature in electronic documents, though it remains infrequently used outside of specialized philological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12372 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Amar Times Kug |
| Block | Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒍲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒍲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x8D 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD808 0xDF72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012372 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud808\udf72 |