Cuneiform Sign TA

On Linux, enter its Unicode value; Python has a direct escape. In a Unicode-aware text field, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 122EB, then press Enter. In Python, use \U000122EB. A cuneiform transliteration tool can turn a reading into the TA sign, but ta alone does not guarantee the intended glyph across languages and periods.

What does 𒋫 mean?

It has no single English translation; context decides. Cuneiform signs can stand for syllables, whole words, or grammatical pieces. References list syllabic readings conventionally written ta and da; Sumerian word readings and a grammatical use meaning “from” or “since” are also recorded. The sign name identifies the written sign, not the reading selected in a particular line.

Cuneiform's earliest tablets at Uruk, around 3300 BCE, were used for administrative record-keeping. Picture-like marks gradually became wedge impressions, and consistent sound-based writing became clear after 2600 BCE. Later scribes used cuneiform to write Sumerian and Akkadian, among other languages. TA appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the fourteenth-century BCE Amarna letters.

Why does 𒋫 look different?

Fonts can show different period styles for the same sign. Cuneiform typefaces may use shapes modeled on different regions and historical periods; the Unicode character gives the sign identity, not a drawing shared by every tablet. A cuneiform sign list—a catalogue of signs—and the tablet's period help when matching one specific form.

𒋬 is the sign named TA ASTERISK. A Middle Assyrian form of TA is historically connected to it; in Neo-Assyrian writing, it had a distinct logographic use as a word sign.