U+12540 "𒕀" Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Lu3 Unicode Character

U+12540 "𒕀" Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Lu3 is a glyph belonging to the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script, one of the earliest known writing systems developed in ancient Mesopotamia. This specific sign is a compound graphic, formed by combining the base sign for "URU" (meaning city or settlement) with the sign for "LU3" (a phonetic or semantic component), indicating that it was used to represent a particular syllable or word related to these elements in the Assyrian and Babylonian periods of the cuneiform syllabary. As part of the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block, which encodes hundreds of these wedge-shaped signs for digital representation, it allows for the accurate preservation and study of ancient texts in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+12540
Version Added	8.0
Name	Cuneiform Sign Uru Times Lu3
Block	Early Dynastic Cuneiform
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𒕀
HTML Hex Encoding	𒕀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x92 0x95 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD809 0xDD40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00012540
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud809\udd40

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