U+13254 "𓉔" Egyptian Hieroglyph O004 Unicode Character

U+13254 "𓉔" Egyptian Hieroglyph O004 is a symbol from the Gardiner sign list representing a reed shelter or a simple building, often used in ancient Egyptian writing to denote a house, building, or enclosure. This hieroglyph typically carries the phonetic value "ḥ" when used as a uniliteral sign, but it can also function as a determinative in words related to structures or locations. Part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block in Unicode, it provides digital representation for a script that was central to the written language of ancient Egypt, used primarily for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative records.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13254
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph O004
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓉔
HTML Hex Encoding	𓉔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x89 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDE54
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013254
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\ude54

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	O-02-001
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A plan of a courtyard or reed shelter.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	h
kEH_UniK	O004
kEH_JSesh	O4
kEH_HG	O4
kEH_IFAO	283,2