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Glyph for U+12471
Source: Noto Sans Cuneiform

U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon

U+12471 was added to Unicode in version 5.0 (2006). It belongs to the block U+12400 to U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation 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+12471 behaves as Break After regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Winkelhaken (German: [ˈvΙͺΕ‹kΙ™lˌhaːkΙ™n], "angular hook"), also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in Akkadian cuneiform. It was realized by pressing the point of the stylus into the clay.

A single Winkelhaken corresponds to the sign U (Borger 1981 nr. 411, Borger 2003 nr. 661), encoded in Unicode at code point U+1230B π’Œ‹.

other signs consisting of Winkelhaken:

  • A Glossenkeil (Borger nr. 378) is a cuneiform character, consisting of either two Winkelhaken (U+12471 π’‘±), or of two parallel short diagonal wedges (U+12472 π’‘², similar to GAM), Borger 2003 nr. 592, which serves as a sort of punctuation, as it were as quote sign, marking foreign words or names, or as separation mark, transliterated as a colon ':'.
  • two Winkelhaken, MAN, XX "20", Borger 2003 nr. 708
  • three Winkelhaken, EΕ , XXX "30", Borger 2003 nr. 711, U+1230D π’Œ
  • four Winkelhaken, NIMIN, XL "40", Borger 2003 nr. 712, U+1240F 𒐏
  • four Winkelhaken, two of them reversed MAΕ GI, BARGI, Borger 2003 nr. 713, U+12310 π’Œ
  • five Winkelhaken, NINNU, L "50", Borger 2003 nr. 714, U+12410 𒐐
  • six Winkelhaken, LX "60", Borger 2003 nr. 715, U+12411 𒐑
  • seven Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 716, U+12412 𒐒
  • eight Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 717, U+12413 𒐓
  • nine Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 718, U+12414 𒐔

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 74865
UTF-8 F0 92 91 B1
UTF-16 D8 09 DC 71
UTF-32 00 01 24 71
URL-Quoted %F0%92%91%B1
HTML hex reference 𒑱
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Γ°β€™β€˜Β±

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.0 (2006)
Unicode Name CUNEIFORM PUNCTUATION SIGN VERTICAL COLON
Unicode 1 Name β€”
Block Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Cuneiform
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Case Folding Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✘
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base βœ”
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic ✘
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category β€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name β€”
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation βœ”
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Other
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✘
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment β€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Break After
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+12471 Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Vertical Colon
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R