U+13480 "𓒀" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓒀

U+13480 "𓒀" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a sign from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, specifically part of the Gardiner sign list category representing numerals, and it typically depicted a loaf of bread or a similar object used in accounting and measurement contexts. This character, encoded in the Unicode Standard's Egyptian Hieroglyphs block (range U+13000–U+1342F), allows modern digital representation of a symbol originally used in Egyptian writing systems from around 3200 BCE onward, often appearing in administrative or religious texts to denote numeric values or fractions. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates scholarly research, digital archiving, and typographic reproduction of ancient Egyptian documents without requiring specialized fonts or manual transcription.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13480
Version Added	16.0
Name	Egyptian Hieroglyph-#
Block	Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𓒀
HTML Hex Encoding	𓒀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x92 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDC80
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013480
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\udc80

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	A-01-062
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Man, seated, both knees downward, right arm sloping downwards, left arm raised, hand held vertically, hand palm inwards.
kEH_Func	Classifier making music
kEH_FVal	ḫnw
kEH_UniK	A008J