U+13296 "𓊖" Egyptian Hieroglyph O049 Unicode Character

U+13296 "𓊖" Egyptian Hieroglyph O049 is a hieroglyph from the Gardiner sign list, classified under the "O" category for buildings, parts of buildings, and related structures, specifically representing a walled or fortified enclosure. In ancient Egyptian writing, this sign typically depicted a stylized rectangular boundary or city wall, often used as an ideogram or determinative for words related to settlements such as town, city, or district, like the word "niwt". It appears frequently in inscriptions and tomb texts to denote a populated or fortified place, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of Egyptian hieroglyphic texts in modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13296
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph O049
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓊖
HTML Hex Encoding	𓊖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x8A 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDE96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013296
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\ude96

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-24-060
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A plan of a crossroads in a village.
kEH_Func	Logogram (city, village)
kEH_FVal	nꞽw.t
kEH_UniK	O049
kEH_JSesh	O49
kEH_HG	O49
kEH_IFAO	324,5