Cuneiform sign GU crossing GU

It has several Sumerian readings; context resolves them. Sign lists record suh₃ for the verb “confuse” and, once, “extract”; they give sah₄ for the adjective “playful.” These italic labels are scholars’ Latin-letter spellings for cuneiform readings, not English words.

GU%GU and GU&GU label one crossed complex sign, not two adjacent GU signs. Cuneiform's complete writing system is first attested at Uruk, a city in southern Mesopotamia, around 3500–3200 BCE in administrative records; it later spread and was adapted to languages including Akkadian and Hittite. That date belongs to the script, not this sign. Tablet impressions and digital fonts can differ.