Winkelhaken


The Winkelhaken, also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in Akkadian cuneiform. It was realized by pressing the point of the stylus into the clay.
A single Winkelhaken corresponds to the sign :wikt:?|, encoded in Unicode at code point U+1230B.
other signs consisting of Winkelhaken:
  • A Glossenkeil is a cuneiform character, consisting of either two Winkelhaken, or of two parallel short diagonal wedges, Borger 2003 nr. 592, which serves as a sort of punctuation, 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, EŠ, 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 MAŠGI, 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