Tu (cuneiform)

The cuneiform sign tu, and for TU-(the Sumerogram, capital letter (majuscule), in the Hittite language and other cuneiform texts, is a common-use syllabic sign for tu, and also with a syllabic use for "t", or "u".

The Sumerian-language version is similar to the usage in the Amarna letters, with the three horizontal strokes connecting the four angled wedges on the left, and connected to the vertical horizontal single stroke, at right.

Varieties exist: for example, Amarna letter EA 271 shows four horizontal long strokes, with two short strokes, between the two long ones, (see here, 2nd line from bottom (tablet Obverse): [1].

[2] TU is used for the name of the king of Shuruppak (father of Utnapishtim), Ubara-Tutu, and it is spelled: mUBARA-dTU.TU.

For the Sumerogram TU.MUŠEN, for Akkadian summu, the English 'dove', it is used twice in the Gilgamesh flood myth, Tablet XI.