U+1321B "𓈛" Egyptian Hieroglyph N038 Unicode Character

U+1321B "𓈛" Egyptian Hieroglyph N038 is a sign from the Gardiner sign list representing a canal or a body of water, often depicted as a rectangular shape with wavy internal lines. This hieroglyph is used in ancient Egyptian writing as a determinative or ideograph for words related to water, such as lakes, pools, or canals, and it belongs to the category of sky, earth, and water signs. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for digital representation and research of this specific symbol from the rich corpus of Egyptian hieroglyphs, facilitating modern scholarship and typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1321B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph N038
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓈛
HTML Hex Encoding	𓈛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x88 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDE1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001321B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\ude1b

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	N-20-019
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A rectangular pool with sloping sides.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	š
kEH_UniK	N038
kEH_JSesh	N38
kEH_HG	N38
kEH_IFAO	278,3