Cuneiform Five U Variant Sign

Use a Unicode escape in code or an HTML character reference in a page.

For HTML, use 𒑪 or 𒑪. In JavaScript use \u{1246A}; in Python use \U0001246A.

This character is outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. UTF-16 stores it as the pair D809 DC6A, so code counting UTF-16 units can count one character as two units.

What does 𒑪 mean?

It is a cuneiform five-U numeral variant.

Cuneiform numbers served accounting, measurement, and scribal exercises, and the wider numerical tradition reaches back to the Late Uruk period. An Old Babylonian school tablet writes the corresponding notation as 5(u@v); an Achaemenid Elamite administrative record uses this form for 50 bars of flour.

In a system where U marks ten, five U units total 50. The surrounding number system and units decide the value, so this is not a one-for-one substitute for the modern digit 5.

What does it mean when someone sends 𒑪?

Read it first as a cuneiform number sign.

Sent on its own, it is best read as a sample or reference to cuneiform writing. In a tablet excerpt, neighboring numerals and units tell you how to read its value.

Cuneiform signs have different shapes across historical styles and fonts. If a font lacks this sign, it may show a square or blank instead.