U+1213F Cuneiform Sign I
U+1213F was added in Unicode version 5.0 in 2006. It belongs to the block
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+1213F forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform i sign is a common use vowel sign. It can be found in many languages, examples being the Akkadian language of the Epic of Gilgamesh (hundreds of years, parts of millenniums) and the mid 14th-century BC Amarna letters; also the Hittite language-(see table of Hittite cuneiform signs below).
In the Epic of Gilgamesh it also has a minor usage as a sumerogram, I. The usage numbers from the Epic are as follows: i-(698), I-(1).
As i and one of the four vowels in Akkadian (there is no "o"), scribes can easily use one sign (a vowel, or a syllable with a vowel) to substitute one vowel for another. In the Amarna letters, the segue adverb "now", or "now, at this time", Akkadian language 'enΕ«ma', is seldom spelled with the 'e'; instead its spellings are typically: anΕ«ma, inΕ«ma, and sometimes enΕ«ma. In both the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh another common use of the "i" sign is for the preposition, Akkadian language ina, spelled i-na, for in, into, for, etc.. (There is an alternate cuneiform sign for ina (cuneiform), a sub-variety use of aΕ‘ (cuneiform), the single, horizontal stroke.)
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 74047 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 84 BF |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DD 3F |
UTF-32 | 00 01 21 3F |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%84%BF |
HTML hex reference | 𒄿 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ββΒΏ |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 90 36 E0 31 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN I | |
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Cuneiform | |
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Cuneiform | |
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Any | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
β | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
β | |
β | |
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Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
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not a number | |
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