U+124CB "ð’“‹" Cuneiform Sign Gish Times Gish Crossing Gish Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+124CB "ð’“‹" Cuneiform Sign Gish Times Gish Crossing Gish is a complex logogram from the Sumerian cuneiform script, used in the ancient Near East for writing the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. Its name describes a visual composition where the sign for "gish" (meaning wood, tree, or a determinative for wooden objects) is repeated and crossed, creating a compound glyph that was often employed in administrative and lexical texts. This character belongs to the Early Dynastic Cuneiform block of Unicode, representing one of the many intricate signs that scribes used to convey specific lexical or phonetic values, such as indicating a class of wooden items or serving as a numerical or multiplicative marker in accounting.

General Properties

Code Point U+124CB
Version Added 8.0
Name Cuneiform Sign Gish Times Gish Crossing Gish
Block Early Dynastic Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𒓋
HTML Hex Encoding 𒓋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x92 0x93 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD809 0xDCCB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000124CB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud809\udccb

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