U+1202D "𒀭" Cuneiform Sign An Unicode Character

U+1202D "𒀭" Cuneiform Sign An is one of the earliest written symbols in human history, originating from ancient Sumerian cuneiform script around 3200 BCE. This sign represents the Sumerian word "An," meaning "sky" or "heaven," and it also served as the name of the supreme sky god Anu in Mesopotamian mythology. As a logogram, it could function independently to denote the divine or heavenly realm, and it was frequently used as a determinative before the names of other gods to indicate their divine status in cuneiform texts. The character is part of the Unicode Standard's Cuneiform block, encoding the wedge shaped markings pressed into clay tablets that form the basis of one of the world's oldest writing systems.