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Glyph for U+1200A
Source: Noto Sans Cuneiform

U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab

U+1200A was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block U+12000 to U+123FF Cuneiform in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Cuneiform script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+1200A behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The cuneiform sign for the syllable ab also represents that for ap, or the vowel and consonant usages of a, b, or p: in the Akkadian language "b" is unaspirated, formed with the lips, and "p" is aspirated, with the breath). In the Akkadian language "b" and "p" are interchangeable; also, in cuneiform texts, any vowel (a, e, i or u: there is no "o" in Akkadian) can be interchanged with any other. The ab/ap sign also has a corresponding capital letter (majuscule) usage as a sumerogram, as found in the Epic of Gilgamesh for AB, the Akkadian language for Ε‘Δ«bu, meaning "elder".

In the corpus of the Amarna letters, where ab/ap is also commonly found, the names occur of the authors of letters to the Pharaoh, for example Labaya and Ayyab, in both of which the syllabic use of "ab is found.

The usage numbers for the "ab" cuneiform sign in Tablets I-XII of the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows: ab - 11, ap - 28 and sumerogram AB - 12. For Ε‘Δ«bu, Akkadian language for elder, only two spellings use "AB"; six other spellings of Ε‘Δ«bu" are syllabic/alphabetic.

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 73738
UTF-8 F0 92 80 8A
UTF-16 D8 08 DC 0A
UTF-32 00 01 20 0A
URL-Quoted %F0%92%80%8A
HTML hex reference 𒀊
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 𒀊

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.0 (2006)
Unicode Name CUNEIFORM SIGN AB
Unicode 1 Name β€”
Block Cuneiform
General Category Other Letter
Script Cuneiform
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Case Folding Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic βœ”
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base βœ”
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue βœ”
ID Start βœ”
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic ✘
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category β€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name β€”
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space ✘
XID Continue βœ”
XID Start βœ”
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment β€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+1200A Cuneiform Sign Ab
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R