File:EB9 China cuneiform lion.png

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English: The cuneiform for "lion" in Akkadian ("Assyrian"), from the section on the Chinese language in the "China" article of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed.


Sumerian: UR.MAḪ; Akkadian: nēšu or urmahhu. Unicode encoding: 𒌨𒈤.
Date
Source "China" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 655
Author Article by Robert Kennaway Douglas; cuneiform engraving anonymous.

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cuneiform of the Akkadian word for lion

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