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ŠU

English: hand (ORACC ePSD2 glossary, CC0)

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eBL nameŠU
UnicodeU+122D7 CUNEIFORM SIGN SHU
Sign listsHZL 68 · LAK 146 · MZL 567 · OBZL 225 · SLLHA 354 · KWU 322 · ABZ 354
Corpus uses216,224 tokens
Live counttablets with “šu”

English gloss

šu[hand]Nhand27419 attestations

Source: ORACC ePSD2 glossary (CC0).

Readings

kat7qadqatqatasagiₓšu

Also in OGSL: giriₓ, takaₓ, 1(šu)

Use by period

Archaic596
Early Dynastic7,001
Old Akkadian4,136
Ur III59,867
Old Babylonian64,679
Middle Bab./Assyr.9,545
Hittite4
Neo-Assyrian22,823
Neo-/Late Babylonian11,810

Sign list: eBL (LMU Munich), with OGSL readings and Unicode (ORACC, CC0). Counts: Unread Atlas corpus. Credits.