Cuneiform UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003) and Robert Englund. Rather than opting for a direct ordering by glyph shape and complexity, according to the numbering of an existing catalogue, the Unicode order of glyphs was based on the Latin alphabetic order of their "last" Sumerian transliteration as a practical approximation. Cuneiform Cuneiform or Sumerian cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name "cuneiform" itself simply means "wedge shaped".
Lu (cuneiform) to Akkadian language, ""lullû"", for English language, "(primitive) man"; "DAB" transposes to ṣabātu, English for "to seize, capture". The usage numbers for "lu" (sign no. 537) in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" are as follows: "dab"-(2) times, "dap"-(4), "dib"-(1), "lu"-(293), "tep"-(1), "tàb"-(1), "tib"-(4), "DAB"-(4), "DIB"-(1), "LU"-(9), "UDU"-(1). The "lu" cuneiform sign is within a small group of signs that are composed of 1- or 2-vertical strokes (at right or left), the other signs being no. 535 Ib (cuneiform), no. 536 ku (cuneiform) (only 1-vertical, left and right), no. 575 ur (cuneiform), and gáb (cuneiform). Besides "ša" usage in word components of