U+1315F "𓅟" Egyptian Hieroglyph G027 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓅟

U+1315F "𓅟" Egyptian Hieroglyph G027 is a representation of a heron or a similar long-legged bird, specifically classified in Gardiner's sign list under the category of birds (G). This hieroglyph was used in ancient Egyptian writing to depict the bird itself, often associated with concepts of flight, water, or the Nile environment, and it could function phonetically as a biliteral sign representing the sounds "bȝ" or "bj" depending on context. It appears in inscriptions on temple walls, papyri, and funerary texts, serving both as a logogram for the bird and as a phonetic complement in words related to the natural world or mythology, such as in the name of the goddess Ba. The glyph was encoded in Unicode version 12.0 in 2019 under the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, preserving a small but significant piece of the rich written language of ancient Egypt for digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1315F
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph G027
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓅟
HTML Hex Encoding	𓅟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x85 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDD5F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001315F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udd5f

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-11-001
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus).
kEH_Func	Logogram (to be red)
kEH_FVal	dšr
kEH_UniK	G027
kEH_JSesh	G27
kEH_HG	G27
kEH_IFAO	179,4