U+12454 "ð’‘”" Cuneiform Numeric Sign Five Ban2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12454 "ð’‘”" Cuneiform Numeric Sign Five Ban2 is a numerical symbol from the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script, used to represent the quantity five in the unit of measurement known as the "ban2," which was a standard capacity unit in Sumerian and Akkadian administrative texts. This character belongs to the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block of the Unicode standard, specifically encoding a numeral that would have been impressed into clay tablets for recording grain, beer, or other commodities in economic transactions. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and scholarly representation of these historical accounting practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12454 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Numeric Sign Five Ban2 |
| Block | Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒑔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒑔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x91 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD809 0xDC54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012454 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud809\udc54 |