U+1323B "𓈻" Egyptian Hieroglyph Nu006 Unicode Character

U+1323B "𓈻" Egyptian Hieroglyph Nu006 is a specific glyph from the Gardiner sign list, classified under the category of "N" (the sky, earth, water, and plants), and it represents a body of water, typically depicted as a series of wavy horizontal lines. In the ancient Egyptian writing system, this hieroglyph functioned as a determinative or ideogram for words related to water, liquids, or watery concepts, such as the word "nu" meaning water or the primordial ocean of Nu. It was also used phonetically to represent the sound "n" in certain contexts, serving as a uniliteral sign. This character is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block in the Unicode Standard, encoded for digital representation to preserve and enable the study of this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1323B
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph Nu006
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓈻
HTML Hex Encoding	𓈻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x88 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDE3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001323B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\ude3b

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	I-03-017
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), with a feather (H6), angled backwards, on its head; on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24).
kEH_Func	Logogram (Iqer, 6th nome of Upper Egypt)
kEH_FVal	ꞽḳr
kEH_UniK	NU006
kEH_JSesh	NU6