What 𒐹 means
It marks a land-area quantity, not the ordinary digit five.
The scholarly label 5(BURU) points to buru, a unit for measuring land. The broader cuneiform number tradition grew out of Uruk administration in the late fourth millennium BCE; signs recorded goods and quantities. Later measuring systems assigned numerals to particular units.
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Who writes 𒐹
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒐹 look different in fonts?
Unicode 18.0 describes period-specific fonts; its charts mostly use Ur III (Ur’s Third Dynasty) style, with some earlier or later forms. Wedges can vary while the character stays the same.
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How to type or find 𒐹
- Also called
- 5(BURU) · ninnu · 5(bur'u)
- Search it as
- cuneiform area numeral · 50 bur
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𒐹CSS
\12439Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𒐹
HTML hex
𒐹
CSS content
content: "\12439";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%92%90%B9
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.