The ''Winkelhaken'' (, "angular hook"), also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in
Akkadian cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo- syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and ...
. It was realized by pressing the point of the stylus into the clay.
A single Winkelhaken corresponds to the sign
(Borger 1981 nr. 411, Borger 2003 nr. 661), encoded in
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
at code point U+1230B .
other signs consisting of Winkelhaken:
*A ''Glossenkeil'' (Borger nr. 378) is a cuneiform character, consisting of either two Winkelhaken (U+12471 ), or of two parallel short diagonal wedges (U+12472 , similar to GAM), Borger 2003 nr. 592, which serves as a sort of
punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of writing, written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, c ...
, as it were as
quote sign, marking foreign words or names, or as separation mark, transliterated as a colon ':'.
*two Winkelhaken, MAN, XX "20", Borger 2003 nr. 708
*three Winkelhaken, EÅ , XXX "30", Borger 2003 nr. 711, U+1230D
*four Winkelhaken, NIMIN, XL "40", Borger 2003 nr. 712, U+1240F
*four Winkelhaken, two of them reversed MAÅ GI, BARGI, Borger 2003 nr. 713, U+12310
*five Winkelhaken, NINNU, L "50", Borger 2003 nr. 714, U+12410
*six Winkelhaken, LX "60", Borger 2003 nr. 715, U+12411
*seven Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 716, U+12412
*eight Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 717, U+12413
*nine Winkelhaken, Borger 2003 nr. 718, U+12414
References
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Cuneiform
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