Cuneiform (Unicode block)

See also: Early Dynastic Cuneiform (Unicode block) and Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (Unicode block)
Cuneiform
RangeU+12000..U+123FF
(1,024 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCuneiform
Major alphabetsSumerian
Akkadian
Elamite
Hittite
Hurrian
Assigned922 code points
Unused102 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.0 (2006)879 (+879)
7.0 (2014)921 (+42)
8.0 (2015)922 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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In Unicode, the Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform script is covered in three blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP):

The sample glyphs in the chart file published by the Unicode Consortium[3] show the characters in their Classical Sumerian form (Early Dynastic period, mid 3rd millennium BCE). The characters as written during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE, during which the vast majority of cuneiform texts were written, are considered font variants of the same characters.

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ Cuneiform Unicode.org chart (PDF)