What 𒋲 means
In a Sumerian text, it can write gurun, “fruit.”
Sign lists also give it the scholarly readings burₓ, buruₓ, gurinₓ, and kurunₓ. A Sumerian lexicon glosses gurun as “fruit” and “flower,” with figurative senses including “figurine” and “sexual appeal.”
Those are readings of words, not meanings guaranteed by the bare glyph; the surrounding text or sign-list entry resolves them.
Why is 𒋲 called 4TAB?
Its name describes a sign built from four TAB units.
Cuneiform began in Mesopotamia's late fourth-millennium BCE record-keeping tradition; later it served Sumerian and Akkadian writing, scholarship, and religious texts. The Sumerian word gurun is attested from Early Dynastic IIIb onward across later Mesopotamian periods.
Some sign lists cross-reference this form with GURUN (MesZL 503), whose separately encoded sign is 𒄧. That catalogue link does not make the glyphs interchangeable.
Specialist and archival; it points to cuneiform text and sign-list work.
“Fruit” is one reading, not a guaranteed translation of the isolated sign.
Who writes 𒋲
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsRead gurun, “fruit,” when the entry supplies that value.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𒋲 show as a box?
A font without Cuneiform coverage may show a box or blank instead of the sign. Select a font that includes Cuneiform; the character data can still be correct.
Does 𒋲 always mean fruit?
No. “Fruit” is one documented Sumerian reading; other readings and the surrounding context can change how the sign is interpreted.
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How to type or find 𒋲
- Also called
- 4×TAB
- Search it as
- 4xTAB · gurun · cuneiform fruit · TAB sign · GURUN sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𒋲\122F2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.