What 𒋣 means
It writes a Sumerian word for leather.
In scholarly transliteration, the sign’s value is e₆. The lexical entry covers a piece or strip of leather and a leather bearing, a support or fitting; a scholarly discussion identifies e₆ as a leather hinge or strap for a door.
The lexical record first lists this reading in Early Dynastic IIIb and also has it in Old Akkadian, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Hellenistic records.
Is SU over SU one sign or two?
𒋣 is one character; 𒋢𒋢 is two signs.
The sign-list analysis of 𒋣 is SU&SU, but Unicode encodes it as one character. The sequence 𒋢𒋢 contains two separate SU characters. Cuneiform glyphs also vary across periods and styles, so a font may draw the same sign differently without changing its identity.
Who writes 𒋣
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Don't confuse it with
1𒋢𒋢 Two separate SU signs in sequence; 𒋣 is the single stacked sign.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𒋣 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 𒋣
- Also called
- SU&SU · e₆ · e6
- Search it as
- leather · hinge · strap · door · stacked
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒋣\122E3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.