U+13179 "𓅹" Egyptian Hieroglyph G049 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓅹

U+13179 "𓅹" Egyptian Hieroglyph G049 is a representation of a pintail duck from the Gardiner sign list, specifically classified under the category of birds (G). This hieroglyph was used in ancient Egyptian writing primarily as a determinative in words related to concepts of "son" or "child," reflecting the bird's phonetic value "zA" or "sa." Its depiction typically shows the duck in profile with distinct tail feathers, and it appears in religious, funerary, and administrative texts from the Middle Kingdom onward, serving as a visual symbol that conveys familial relationships through the natural world.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13179
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph G049
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓅹
HTML Hex Encoding	𓅹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x85 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDD79
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013179
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udd79

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-20-030
kEH_Core	C
kEH_UniK	G049