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𒑙

cuneiform numeric sign two eshe3

Cuneiform Numeric Sign Two Eše₃

𒑙 means 2 eše₃, an ancient Mesopotamian land-area measure. It appears in records of fields and surveyed land. Unlike a plain 2, it already names the area unit being counted.

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2 eše₃ · 2 eshe3 · two eshe3 · eše₃ · eshe3 · ešemin5 · eshemin5 · land area measure
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What 𒑙 means

It means two eše₃, a Mesopotamian unit of land area.

By the end of the 4th millennium BCE, Late Uruk tablets used eše₃ as a land-area unit: 1 eše₃ equaled 6 iku (a smaller area unit), and 1 bur₃ equaled 3 eše₃.

Ur III field records (2100-2000 BCE) and Old Babylonian legal records (1900-1600 BCE) retain this land-measure reading. Old Babylonian metrological lists also separate the number, unit, and thing measured.

Technical and archival: in a land record, it counts area units; elsewhere, eše₃ needs explanation.

It is not a plain 2; the area unit is part of the sign.

Don't confuse it with

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𒐀
Cuneiform Numeric Sign Two Ash
shares “cuneiform”, “numeric”, “sign”, “two”
𒐖
Cuneiform Numeric Sign Two Gesh2
shares “cuneiform”, “numeric”, “sign”, “two”
𒐟
Cuneiform Numeric Sign Two Geshu
shares “cuneiform”, “numeric”, “sign”, “two”
𒐣
Cuneiform Numeric Sign Two Shar2
shares “cuneiform”, “numeric”, “sign”, “two”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𒑙 show as a box?

A box means the font being used lacks this cuneiform sign. A font with coverage for Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation can display it.

How to type 𒑙

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 12459, then Alt+X to get 𒑙.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cuneiform numeric sign two eshe3”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 12459, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𒑙
CSS
\12459
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𒑙
HTML hex
𒑙
CSS content
content: "\12459";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%92%91%99
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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.

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