Winkelhaken Explained

The Winkelhaken (pronounced as /de/, "angular hook"), 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 (Borger 1981 nr. 411, Borger 2003 nr. 661), encoded in Unicode 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, 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

References

• Book: Borger, R. . Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste . 2nd . Neukirchen-Vluyn . 1981 . 3-7666-9206-2 . de .
• Book: Borger, R. . Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon . Münster . 2003 . 3-927120-82-0 . de .