U+124A7 "ð’’§" Cuneiform Sign Dug Times She Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+124A7 "ð’’§" Cuneiform Sign Dug Times She is a rare compound sign from the Sumerian cuneiform script, representing a composite glyph formed by the combination of the signs DUG and SHE. It belongs to the Early Dynastic period of Mesopotamian writing, typically used in administrative or lexical texts to denote a specific type of vessel or container associated with grain or barley, as SHE (or ŠE) signifies barley while DUG refers to a pot or jar. This sign would have been employed by ancient scribes to efficiently indicate a precise commodity or measure in economic records, reflecting the logographic nature of cuneiform where multiple symbols could merge to convey nuanced meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+124A7 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Dug Times She |
| Block | Early Dynastic Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒒧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒒧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x92 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD809 0xDCA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000124A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud809\udca7 |