U+13055 "𓁕" Egyptian Hieroglyph B005A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓁕

U+13055 "𓁕" Egyptian Hieroglyph B005A is a representation of a pregnant woman in the ancient Egyptian writing system, specifically part of the Gardiner sign list's category for women and their occupations. This hieroglyph serves as a determinative in words related to pregnancy, birth, or female fertility, often appearing in inscriptions or religious texts to convey the concept of creation or maternal generation. Visually, it depicts a seated female figure with a pronounced belly, and its encoding in Unicode allows for its accurate digital preservation and use in modern scholarly, historical, and linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13055
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph B005A
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓁕
HTML Hex Encoding	𓁕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x81 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDC55
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013055
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udc55

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	B-02-010
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Woman, seated, both knees down, with long hair and a band of cloth around the head, bound at the back, with two sticks forming a cross-like structure over the legs.
kEH_Func	Logogram weaver or nurse
kEH_FVal	? \| mnḫ.t
kEH_UniK	B005A
kEH_JSesh	B104