What 𒑔 means
A measured quantity. The Mesopotamian ban2 was a capacity measure or measuring vessel; 𒑔 records goods in that unit.
Cuneiform is written in wedges; its full system is first attested in Uruk IV administrative records, an early phase in the city of Uruk (c. 3500–3200 BCE).
Ur III and Old Babylonian records keep ban2 as a capacity unit; Akkadian accounts total bread and other goods in it. This sign belongs to a one-to-five BAN2 series; Unicode encodes a separate five-ban2 variant.
Specialist and archival: a cuneiform measure.
Without ban2, “five” loses its capacity unit.
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Who writes 𒑔
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1Why does 𒑔 vary by font?
It can: fonts may use period-specific wedge styles for the same encoded sign.
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How to type or find 𒑔
- Also called
- 5(ban2)
- Search it as
- ban2 · sūtu · sutu
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒑔\12454Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.