U+1308B "𓂋" Egyptian Hieroglyph D021 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓂋

U+1308B "𓂋" Egyptian Hieroglyph D021 is a representation of a human mouth, often transliterated as "r" in the ancient Egyptian writing system. This hieroglyph belongs to the category of parts of the human body and was used both as a phonetic sign for the consonant sound "r" and as a logogram or determinative in words related to speech, eating, or the mouth itself. Inscribed within the Unicode Standard as part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, it enables modern digital representation and study of one of the earliest known writing systems, bridging millennia of linguistic history with contemporary technology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1308B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph D021
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓂋
HTML Hex Encoding	𓂋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x82 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDC8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001308B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udc8b

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-12-001
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A mouth.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	r
kEH_UniK	D021
kEH_JSesh	D21
kEH_HG	D21
kEH_IFAO	100,11