What 𒆲 means
Context selects the word.
Sign lists transliterate its Sumerian readings as kun (“tail”), gu (“neck”), and kuŋ (“stair”), plus one glossed “female pig.” The lone sign cannot choose one.
The earliest cuneiform records come from Uruk IV, an early phase of the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, c. 3500–3200 BCE; they track goods and quantities. Unicode pairs an early Proto-Cuneiform KUN, from cuneiform’s first stage, with 𒆲 as its later Sumerian-Akkadian analogue. Picture-like signs became wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay and later represented sounds or words in Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages.
A Sumerian sign with several readings; the written context selects the word.
Do not translate a lone 𒆲 as “tail.”
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𒆲 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 𒆲
𒆲\121B2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.