U+132A4 "𓊤" Egyptian Hieroglyph P008 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓊤

U+132A4 "𓊤" Egyptian Hieroglyph P008 is a symbol from the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, classified under Gardiner's sign list as category P for boats and parts of boats. This particular glyph depicts a sail, representing the determinative or ideogram for words related to wind, air, or sailing, such as the Egyptian word "ṯꜣw" meaning wind. In the Unicode Standard, it is encoded in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block (U+13000 to U+1342F), which was added to support the digital representation of ancient Egyptian writing. The sign is visually characterized by a rectangular or trapezoidal shape with cross-hatched or slanted lines, resembling a billowing sail, and it appears in inscriptions on monuments, papyri, and tomb reliefs from the Old Kingdom onward.

General Properties

Code Point	U+132A4
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph P008
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓊤
HTML Hex Encoding	𓊤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x8A 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDEA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000132A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udea4

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	P-08-001
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	An oar, written vertically.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	ḫrw
kEH_UniK	P008
kEH_JSesh	P8
kEH_HG	P8
kEH_IFAO	336,15