U+1313F "𓄿" Egyptian Hieroglyph G001 Unicode Character

U+1313F "𓄿" Egyptian Hieroglyph G001 is a representation of a vulture in the ancient Egyptian writing system, specifically belonging to Gardiner’s sign list category G for birds. This hieroglyph is commonly used as a uniliteral sign for the consonant sound “ꜣ” (a glottal or alveolar approximant), and it appears frequently in words related to the vulture goddess Nekhbet, as well as in royal and funerary texts to convey ideas of protection, motherhood, or the sky. As part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block in Unicode, it enables digital representation and study of this historic script, preserving its significance in modern typography and academic research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1313F
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph G001
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓄿
HTML Hex Encoding	𓄿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x84 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDD3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001313F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udd3f

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	G-26-001
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	An Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	ꜣ
kEH_UniK	G001
kEH_JSesh	G1
kEH_HG	G1
kEH_IFAO	204,1