U+12291 Cuneiform Sign Ri
U+12291 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+12291 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The cuneiform Ri sign, or Re, is found in both the 14th-century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh; it is in the top 25 most used cuneiform signs (Buccellati, 1979) for ri, or re, but has other syllabic or alphabetic uses, as well as the Sumerogram usage for RI (Epic of Gilgamesh).
The ri (cuneiform) sign has the following uses in the Epic of Gilgamesh:
- dal
- re
- ri
- tal
- αΉal
- RI (Sumerogram usage)
The specific usage numbers for the sign's meaning in the Epic is as follows: dal-(4), re-(56), ri-(372), tal-(70), αΉal-(2), RI-(1).
In the Amarna letters, ri also has a special usage when coupled with the naming of the Pharaoh, as "LUGAL-Ri". Lugal is the Sumerogram translated in the Akkadian language to 'King', Sarru. Thus in the Amarna letters, Lugal is used as a stand-alone, but sometimes supplemented with Ri, and specifically used as Sumerogram SΓR (an equivalent Sumerogram to mean LUGAL) to be combined with RI to make sarru for king. ('The King', as an appellation is sometimes created by adding ma (cuneiform), suffix to the end of a name (Lugal-ma.)
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 74385 |
UTF-8 | F0 92 8A 91 |
UTF-16 | D8 08 DE 91 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 22 91 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%92%8A%91 |
HTML hex reference | 𒊑 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°βΕ β |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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CUNEIFORM SIGN RI | |
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0 | |
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Other | |
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Yes | |
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Other Letter | |
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Alphabetic Letter | |
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