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Glyph for U+12049
Source: Noto Sans Cuneiform

U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi

U+12049 was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+12049 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The cuneiform bi sign, also pΓ­, and used for other syllabic forms, as well as a sumerogram, is a common use syllabic and alphabetic cuneiform sign used in both the mid-14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Amarna letters, it is sometimes used for the spelling of the archers (Egyptian pitati), 'pΓ­-t(x)-t(x)', an often requested need from the Pharaoh in the vassal state sub-corpus of the letters.

As a sumerogram, (capital letter (majuscule)), sign bi is used for KAŠ, Akkadian language for "őikāru", beer.

The following linguistic elements for bi are used in the Epic:

bΓ©
bi
gaΕ‘
kaΕ‘
pΓ­
KAΕ , sumerogram: "beer"

The bi sign's usage numbers in the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows: bΓ©-(25 times), bi-(190), gaΕ‘-(1), kaΕ‘-(12), pΓ­-(2), KAΕ -(1).

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 73801
UTF-8 F0 92 81 89
UTF-16 D8 08 DC 49
UTF-32 00 01 20 49
URL-Quoted %F0%92%81%89
HTML hex reference 𒁉
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 𒁉
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 90 36 C7 35

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.0 (2006)
Unicode Name (na) CUNEIFORM SIGN BI
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) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Lowercase (Lower) ✘︎
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Uppercase (Upper) ✘︎
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘︎
Alphabetic (Alpha) βœ”︎
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘︎
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘︎
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘︎
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘︎
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘︎
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘︎
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘︎
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘︎
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘︎
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘︎
Cased (Cased) ✘︎
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘︎
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘︎
Dash (Dash) ✘︎
Deprecated (Dep) ✘︎
Diacritic (Dia) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘︎
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘︎
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘︎
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘︎
Emoji (Emoji) ✘︎
Extender (Ext) ✘︎
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘︎
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) βœ”︎
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘︎
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘︎
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘︎
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘︎
ID Continue (IDC) βœ”︎
ID Start (IDS) βœ”︎
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘︎
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘︎
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘︎
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) β€”
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) β€”
Join Control (Join_C) ✘︎
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘︎
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘︎
Math (Math) ✘︎
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘︎
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘︎
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘︎
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘︎
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘︎
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘︎
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘︎
Other Math (OMath) ✘︎
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘︎
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘︎
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘︎
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘︎
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘︎
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘︎
Radical (Radical) ✘︎
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘︎
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘︎
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘︎
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘︎
Variation Selector (VS) ✘︎
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘︎
XID Continue (XIDC) βœ”︎
XID Start (XIDS) βœ”︎
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘︎
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘︎
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘︎
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘︎
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) β€”
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+12049 Cuneiform Sign Bi
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R