U+130EA "𓃪" Egyptian Hieroglyph E020A Unicode Character

U+130EA "𓃪" Egyptian Hieroglyph E020A is a specific sign from the ancient Egyptian writing system, classified under the category of birds. This particular hieroglyph depicts a duck or waterfowl, often identified as a "duckling" or "teal," and was used phonetically to represent the consonant sound "T" or "ṯ" (a "tj" sound) in the Egyptian language. It appears in inscriptions and texts as a logogram or determinative, contributing to the meaning of words related to birds or small animals, and is part of the broader set of Gardiner's Sign List birds category. As a character encoded in Unicode's Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, it allows modern digital representation of this ancient symbol for academic study, preservation, and typographic use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+130EA
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph E020A
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓃪
HTML Hex Encoding	𓃪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x83 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDCEA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000130EA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udcea

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	E-02-004
kEH_Core	C
kEH_UniK	E020A
kEH_JSesh	E147
kEH_HG	E147