The ''Winkelhaken'' (, "angular hook"), also simply called a hook, is one of five basic wedge elements appearing in the composition of signs in

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. 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

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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

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, as it were as

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, 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

* *{{cite book , first=R. , last=Borger , title=Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon , location=Münster , year=2003 , isbn=3-927120-82-0 , language=de Cuneiform