U+124CA "ð’“Š" Cuneiform Sign Geshtin Times U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+124CA "ð’“Š" Cuneiform Sign Geshtin Times U is a specific glyph from the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script, used primarily in the writing of Sumerian and Akkadian languages. This particular sign represents a compound or ligature, combining the elements for "geshtin" (meaning wine or grape) with the phonetic or determinative marker U, and it would have been employed in administrative, economic, or religious texts on clay tablets. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and scholarly study of cuneiform writing, allowing modern researchers to accurately transcribe and analyze these ancient records without relying on specialized fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+124CA |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Geshtin Times U |
| Block | Early Dynastic Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒓊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒓊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x93 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD809 0xDCCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000124CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud809\udcca |