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𒁮

cuneiform sign dam

Cuneiform Sign DAM

𒁮 means “spouse” in a cuneiform text, and surrounding grammar tells you whether that person is a husband or wife. It appears in Sumerian marriage and legal records. Unicode 16.0 describes fonts designed for different cuneiform periods, so typefaces can draw the sign in different historical styles.

Text symbol
Also called
DAM · dam sign · spouse sign
Search it as
cuneiform DAM · dam meaning · cuneiform husband · cuneiform wife · Sumerian dam · cuneiform marriage contract
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𒁮 means

It marks a spouse; grammar tells you which one.

The Sumerian term dam is attested from Early Dynastic IIIa through Hellenistic periods. In marriage and legal records it means spouse; Akkadian lexical tradition gives both “wife” and “husband” as equivalents.

An earlier Proto-Cuneiform sign list catalogs a DAM form as ZATU067. The full cuneiform system is first attested at Uruk around 3500–3200 BCE, as growing cities needed more administrative records. Scribes pressed sharpened reeds into clay to make wedge-shaped marks; tools and writing conventions changed the signs over time.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
A man is the grammatical subject
The spouse is his wife.
A woman is the grammatical subject
The spouse is her husband.
The person’s gender is unclear
Keep “spouse”; 𒁮 alone leaves gender open.

Don't confuse it with

4
𒀀
Cuneiform Sign A
shares “cuneiform”, “sign”
𒀁
Cuneiform Sign A Times A
shares “cuneiform”, “sign”
𒀂
Cuneiform Sign A Times Bad
shares “cuneiform”, “sign”
𒀃
Cuneiform Sign A Times Gan2 Tenu
shares “cuneiform”, “sign”

Combination ideas

1
“His/her spouse” in a marriage contract; context identifies wife or husband.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𒁮 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 𒁮

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1206E, then Alt+X to get 𒁮.
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 sign dam”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1206e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𒁮
CSS
\1206E
How do I type the cuneiform DAM sign?
Cuneiform input uses transliteration layouts: enter a sign value such as dam in a compatible editor. Exact keystrokes depend on the software.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𒁮
HTML hex
𒁮
CSS content
content: "\1206E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%92%81%AE
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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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