U+12500 "𒔀" Cuneiform Sign Lak-608 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𒔀
U+12500 "𒔀" Cuneiform Sign Lak-608 is a specific glyph from the cuneiform script, an ancient writing system used primarily in Mesopotamia. This particular sign, cataloged under the designation Lak-608 in scholarly inventories, represents a wedge shaped mark that was impressed into clay tablets using a reed stylus. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that researchers, historians, and digital linguists can accurately encode and display this rare character across modern computing platforms, preserving a small fragment of the complex logographic and syllabic writing system that flourished over three thousand years ago.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12500 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Cuneiform Sign Lak-608 |
| Block | Early Dynastic Cuneiform |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𒔀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𒔀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x92 0x94 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD809 0xDD00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00012500 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud809\udd00 |