U+12038 was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block Cuneiform in the 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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+12038 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type OLetter for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform AΕ‘ sign, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Epic, it has the following meanings, besides aΕ‘:
- aΕ‘
- dil
- ina
- αΉel
- AΕ
Some special considerations for a single "cuneiform sign" are as follows. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the space for a group of signs (in cuneiform, a group of individual strokes), is called (quadrat)-block. Among cuneiform signs, only a handful of signs (specifically the individual 'skrokes', horizontal, vertical, "wedge", 'half-strokes', etc.) are found in single usage. For aΕ‘ specifically, (the full-length, horizontal stroke) its highest usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is for the preposition ina (for in, into, etc; confer for a specific "ina" usage (by Kovacs), Gilgamesh flood myth#Alternative translations). The specific usage numbers for the sign's meaning in the Epic is as follows: aΕ‘-(4), dil-(3), ina-(284), αΉel-(1), AΕ -(1). The high usage as the preposition may be for space considerations, but it should be considered that the Epic of Gilgamesh was also a "training document" for scribes, over hundreds of years, so the multi-functioning of signs may also have been in issue, (one cuneiform sign substituted for the prepostion: i-na, of two signs.)
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 73784 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 80 B8 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DC 38 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 20 38 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%80%B8 |
HTML-Escape | 𒀸 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΒΒΈ |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 5.0 |
Unicode Name (na) | CUNEIFORM SIGN ASH |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | β |
Block (blk) | Cuneiform |
General Category (gc) | Other Letter |
Script (sc) | Cuneiform |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Left To Right |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | β |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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Uppercase (Upper) | β |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | β |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | β |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | β |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | β |
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | β |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | β |
Case Ignorable (CI) | β |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | β |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | β |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | β |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | β |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | β |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | β |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | β |
Dash (Dash) | β |
Deprecated (Dep) | β |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | β |
Diacritic (Dia) | β |
East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
Extender (Ext) | β |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | β |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | β |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | β |
Hex Digit (Hex) | β |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | β |
ID Continue (IDC) | β |
Ideographic (Ideo) | β |
ID Start (IDS) | β |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | β |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | β |
InMC (InMC) | β |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | β |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | β |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | β |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | β |
Math (Math) | β |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | β |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | β |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | β |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | β |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | β |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | β |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | β |
Other Math (OMath) | β |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | β |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | β |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | β |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | β |
Radical (Radical) | β |
Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Cuneiform |
Soft Dotted (SD) | β |
STerm (STerm) | β |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | β |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | β |
Variation Selector (VS) | β |
Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
White Space (WSpace) | β |
XID Continue (XIDC) | β |
XID Start (XIDS) | β |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | β |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | β |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | β |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | β |