U+1223E Cuneiform Sign Na
U+1223E was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+1223E 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 na sign is a common, multi-use sign, a syllabic for na, and an alphabetic sign used for n, or a; it is common in both the Epic of Gilgamesh over hundreds of years, and the 1350 BC Amarna letters. In the Epic of Gilgamesh it also has sumerogramic (capital letter (majuscule)) usage for NA. An example usage for NA in the Epic is for the spelling of NA.GAD, (also LΓ.NA.GAD, and the plural LΓ.NA.GAD.MEΕ ), for Akkadian language "nΔqidu", "herdsman". The usage for NA in herdsman is only for 3 spellings.
The commonness of cuneiform na, in the top 25 used signs by Buccellati (Buccellati 1979), (2nd highest usage, exceeded by a: a (cuneiform)) is because of usage for the spelling of a-na (Akkadian language "ana") -, the common preposition spelling for English language: to, for, by, of, at, etc.. It is also a component for the Akkadian language preposition: i-na (ina), meaning: in, into, by, etc..
The na sign usage from the Epic of Gilgamesh is as follows: na-(736 times), NA-(24).
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 74302 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 88 BE |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DE 3E |
UTF-32 | 00 01 22 3E |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%88%BE |
HTML hex reference | 𒈾 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΛΒΎ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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