What 𒑘 means
One eše₃ is a unit for measuring land area. Mesopotamian land measurement reaches back to the fourth millennium BCE. For the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods of Mesopotamian history, a 2024 Unicode proposal gives one eše₃ as about 2.16 hectares.
A tablet from Ur III, a period in ancient Mesopotamia around 2100–2000 BCE, records one eše₃ and four iku alongside GAN₂, the field marker. Iku is another land-area unit; together, these signs express a field measurement. The Unicode sign list also records a curved counterpart with the same eše₃ value, cross-referenced to 𒑘.
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1Why does 𒑘 show as a box?
A box usually means the font has no glyph for 𒑘. The text still contains the character; a font with cuneiform coverage can display it.
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How to type or find 𒑘
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- eshe3 · eše₃ · eše · field area · land-area unit · cuneiform land measure
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𒑘\1245812458 ; otherwise use the system character picker. A cuneiform-capable font is needed to display it.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.