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Glyph for U+121B3
Source: Noto Sans Cuneiform

U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur

U+121B3 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+121B3 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The cuneiform kur sign, (in cuneiform: 𒆳; as Sumerogram, KUR), has many uses in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is routinely and commonly used to spell the Akkadian language word "mātu", for "land", "country"; also possibly "region". In EA 288, a letter from the Abdi-Heba, the Governor of Jerusalem, the kur sign is used eight times.

The alphabetic/syllabic uses and Sumerograms of the 'kur' sign from the Epic of Gilgamesh:

gìn
kur
lat
laΘ›
mad
mat
Ε‘ad
Ε‘at
GÌN (Sumerogram)s
KUR
MAD

Its usage numbers from the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows: gΓ¬n-(1), kur-(5), lat-(18), laΘ›-(1), mad-(2), mat-(52), Ε‘ad-(6), Ε‘at-(13),PA-(11), pa-(209), GÌN-(10), KUR-(72), MAD-(5). In the Amarna letters, an example usage is from EA 288 (Reverse), l. 35, defeated LAND-(kur) Nahrima.

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 74163
UTF-8 F0 92 86 B3
UTF-16 D8 08 DD B3
UTF-32 00 01 21 B3
URL-Quoted %F0%92%86%B3
HTML hex reference 𒆳
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 𒆳

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 5.0 (2006)
Unicode Name (na) CUNEIFORM SIGN KUR
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+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
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+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
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) ✘
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+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
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+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
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+121B3 Cuneiform Sign Kur
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R