U+1308A "𓂊" Egyptian Hieroglyph D020 Unicode Character

U+1308A "𓂊" Egyptian Hieroglyph D020 is a character from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, representing a specific ideogram or phonogram used in ancient Egyptian writing. This particular glyph, cataloged by Gardiner's sign list as D020, depicts a schematic nose and is known to have the phonetic value "fnḏ" or "sšn," often associated with words relating to the nose, smell, or breath. In inscriptions, it appears as a determinative or phonetic complement within larger words or phrases, helping to convey meaning in sacred texts and monumental carvings from the Old Kingdom period onward. Its encoding in Unicode ensures that the character is digitally preserved and accessible for scholarly work, linguistic research, and modern typographic use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1308A
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph D020
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓂊
HTML Hex Encoding	𓂊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x82 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDC8A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001308A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udc8a

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	D-11-002
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	The nose, eye and cheek of a human, written in a semi-cursive fashion.
kEH_Func	Classifier nose
kEH_FVal	fnḏ
kEH_UniK	D020
kEH_JSesh	D20
kEH_HG	D20
kEH_IFAO	100,8