U+12499 "ð’’™" Cuneiform Sign Dug Times Igi Gunu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+12499 "ð’’™" Cuneiform Sign Dug Times Igi Gunu is a complex glyph from the Sumero Akkadian cuneiform script, used primarily in ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets for writing the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. Its name indicates that it is a compound sign formed by combining the sign DUG (meaning a vessel or pot) with the sign IGI (meaning eye or face) in a multiplicative or ligatured manner, further modified by the "gunu" diacritic which often adds a hatched or cross hatched shading to the base sign to alter its phonetic or semantic value. This character belongs to the Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation block in Unicode, though it is more accurately part of the extensive Early Dynastic Cuneiform repertoire, and it represents a specific lexical or syllabic value in administrative, religious, or literary texts. As a rare and specialized sign, it is primarily of interest to scholars of ancient Near Eastern languages and epigraphy, rather than in modern general use.

General Properties

Code Point U+12499
Version Added 8.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Dug Times Igi Gunu
Block Early Dynastic Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒒙
HTML Hex Encoding 𒒙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x92 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD809 0xDC99
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00012499
C/C++/Java Escape \ud809\udc99

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
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