U+12460 "ð’‘ " Cuneiform Numeric Sign One Quarter Ash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð’‘
U+12460 "ð’‘ " Cuneiform Numeric Sign One Quarter Ash is a specialized glyph from the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block, representing a fractional value in the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian sexagesimal numeral system. This sign denotes one quarter of the "ash" unit, a measure used for capacity or area in Mesopotamian administrative and economic texts. It is typically transcribed as 1/4 or 0.25 and was written with a distinctive wedge shape to indicate this precise fraction. The character allows modern digital encoding and accurate representation of these ancient numerical notations for scholarly study and digital preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12460 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Numeric Sign One Quarter Ash |
| Block | Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒑠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒑠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x91 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD809 0xDC60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012460 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud809\udc60 |