U+124C9 "𒓉" Cuneiform Sign Gaba Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+124C9 "𒓉" Cuneiform Sign Gaba Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specific graphical variant of the cuneiform sign Gaba, which in its standard orientation represents a word or syllable in the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writing systems. This character belongs to the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block and is encoded as a separate sign because its rotated form, turned ninety degrees from the usual position, was used in certain archaic or ornamental contexts, particularly on early monuments and artifacts from the Mesopotamian region. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars and digital text projects to accurately represent these rotated inscriptions without relying on font-level transformations, preserving the precise visual and orthographic details of the original cuneiform records.

General Properties

Code Point U+124C9
Version Added 8.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Gaba Rotated Ninety Degrees
Block Early Dynastic Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒓉
HTML Hex Encoding 𒓉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x93 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD809 0xDCC9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000124C9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud809\udcc9

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