What 𒆥 means
Most often, it writes Sumerian “work.” Scholars spell this reading kiŋ₂ in Latin letters; it can also mean “to seek.” gur₁₀ means “to reap,” while kin can mean “sickle.”
Cuneiform began as fourth-millennium BCE administrative writing; “work” is attested by Early Dynastic IIIa. Proto-cuneiform, an earlier Mesopotamian script, also has a sign catalogued as KIN in Uruk III. As of 2026, the shared label alone does not establish direct descent.
Ancient and scholarly.
KIN is the sign’s label, not its one fixed translation.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𒆥 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 𒆥
𒆥\121A5Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.