U+133C8 "𓏈" Egyptian Hieroglyph W020 Unicode Character

U+133C8 "𓏈" Egyptian Hieroglyph W020 is a sign from the Gardiner sign list’s category for vessels of stone and pottery, specifically representing a type of beer or water jar with a pointed base and a narrow neck. This hieroglyph was used in ancient Egyptian writing to denote concepts related to liquid containers, often serving as a determinative in words for beverages or storage vessels, and it appears primarily in inscriptions from the Old Kingdom onward. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital representation and study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, facilitating modern research into ancient texts without reliance on specialized fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+133C8
Version Added	5.2
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph W020
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓏈
HTML Hex Encoding	𓏈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x8F 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80C 0xDFC8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000133C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80c\udfc8

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	W-07-006
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A milk jar with two horizontal lines over the jar, with a leaf covering the milk.
kEH_Func	Classifier milk
kEH_FVal	ꞽrṯ.t
kEH_UniK	W020
kEH_JSesh	W20
kEH_HG	W20