U+1302B "𓀫" Egyptian Hieroglyph A038 Unicode Character

U+1302B "𓀫" Egyptian Hieroglyph A038 is a stylized depiction of a seated man with a distinct posture and symbolic attributes, part of the Gardiner sign list category A for "Man and his occupations." This specific glyph, rendered as a man with his hand to his mouth, traditionally represents the concepts of eating, drinking, or speaking, and is often used in ancient Egyptian writing as a determinative or ideograph for verbs and nouns related to consumption or verbal expression. Its inclusion in Unicode enables modern digital representation and study of this ancient script, preserving the cultural and linguistic heritage of Egyptian hieroglyphs within contemporary computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1302B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph A038
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓀫
HTML Hex Encoding	𓀫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x80 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDC2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001302B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udc2b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Script Extensions	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter

Unikemet Data

kEH_Cat	A-21-002
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Man, standing, arms at either side of the body, holding the necks of two emblematic animals with panther heads, connected by a line which runs under the feet of the man.
kEH_Func	Logogram (Cusae)
kEH_FVal	ḳꞽs
kEH_UniK	A038
kEH_JSesh	A38
kEH_HG	A38
kEH_IFAO	32,5