What 𐎅 means
It represents the audible h at the start of “hand.”
Why use wedges to write an alphabet?
Ugaritic pairs alphabetic signs with clay wedges. Scribes likely adapted an existing alphabet to the wedge-shaped writing used for Akkadian, another language of the region. The tablets include lists, contracts, letters, school exercises, myths and religious texts.
Did 𐎅 ever mean an idea by itself?
The surviving Ugaritic record uses it as a letter for h. It appears in words and alphabet lists, not as a separate emblem, through the early 12th century BCE.
Who writes 𐎅
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐎅 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 𐎅
- Search it as
- ugaritic h · ugaritic alphabet · ugaritic script · cuneiform h
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐎅CSS
\10385Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐎅
HTML hex
𐎅
CSS content
content: "\10385";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%8E%85
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.