What 𒂲 means
It is read lubun, a Sumerian word for a sheep disease. Ancient Sumerian word lists record the compound EZENLU (also written “ezen x lu”) as lubun; lists in Akkadian, another ancient Mesopotamian language, give ḫinqu as an equivalent. The sign name describes its components, not a phrase meaning “festival person.”
Two related signs have disease readings in the same lexical tradition: 𒂱 is libin, and 𒂯 is laban. Both are listed as diseases of sheep.
Specialist and archival; the visible shape depends on the font rendering this text character.
The sign name is not a literal “festival person” phrase; read EZENLU as a label.
Who writes 𒂲
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒂲 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 𒂲
- Also called
- ezen x lu · lubun
- Search it as
- ezen times lu · sheep disease · cuneiform sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒂲\120B2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.