What 𒃮 means
It means “chest” or “breast” in Sumerian.
It writes gaba, “the body’s front.” Texts extend it to an edge, surface, frontier, or far riverbank; Akkadian uses it for irtu, “chest” or “breast.” In pairings, gaba ri means “confront”; gaba sig means “beat the breast.”
Written examples span Early Dynastic IIIa through the Hellenistic period. Early Dynastic IIIa was an early Mesopotamian period; Hellenistic refers to the centuries after Alexander’s conquests. This dates surviving use, not the sign’s invention.
An ancient writing sign; alone, it cannot fix one translation.
A bare sign leaves its sense open.
Who writes 𒃮
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Questions people ask
1Can 𒃮 look different across devices?
Yes. Unicode Standard, Version 17.0 treats the chart shape as a reference, not a required font outline.
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How to type or find 𒃮
- Also called
- gab
- Search it as
- gaba · irtu · chest · breast · frontier · cuneiform chest
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒃮\120EECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.