U+1246D "ð’‘­" Cuneiform Numeric Sign Eight U Variant Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1246D "ð’‘­" Cuneiform Numeric Sign Eight U Variant Form is a specific glyph from the cuneiform script, used primarily in ancient Mesopotamian writing to represent the number eight, with the "U" variant form indicating a particular stylization or graphical variation of the standard numeric sign. This character belongs to the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block, which encodes numeric notations, fractions, and administrative symbols derived from Sumerian, Akkadian, and other cuneiform traditions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers, linguists, and digital humanities scholars can accurately reproduce and study these ancient numerical records in modern electronic texts, preserving the distinct shape that differentiates it from other numeric representations in the cuneiform repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point U+1246D
Version Added 7.0
Name Cuneiform Numeric Sign Eight U Variant Form
Block Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
General Category Letter Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒑭
HTML Hex Encoding 𒑭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x91 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD809 0xDC6D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001246D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud809\udc6d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 8
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