What 𒒩 means
It identifies one sign; it does not fix a reading. E₂KUR is a sign-list label describing the sign's structural analysis, not a pronunciation. LAK-738 is Deimel's catalogue number from 1922. In a cuneiform text, the same sign may stand for different sounds or words depending on the text and scribal tradition.
Cuneiform grew from administrative record-keeping in southern Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BCE. The same sign has different forms across periods and regions, so one modern font outline cannot show every historical version.
Scholarly: treat E₂KUR as a sign label, not a translation.
𒒩 is one sign; 𒂍𒆳 is a separate two-sign sequence.
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Who writes 𒒩
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Don't confuse it with
1𒂍𒆳 This is the separate two-character sequence E₂ KUR, not the single sign 𒒩.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒒩 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.
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How to type or find 𒒩
- Also called
- E₂×KUR · LAK-738
- Search it as
- cuneiform e2 times kur · e2×kur · e2-kur · 𒒩
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒒩\124A9Codes and encoding1 code points
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