U+13557 "𓕗" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓕗

U+13557 "𓕗" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, part of Unicode's encoding of ancient Egyptian writing, which falls under Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane). This particular character corresponds to the Gardiner sign list category of a seated deity or a similar divine figure, often used in religious or funerary texts to represent a god or a person of high status in a seated posture. As a hieroglyph, it carries symbolic meaning related to divinity, authority, or the afterlife, and is typically read as a determinative or an ideogram in transliterations of Middle Egyptian. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital representation and research of ancient Egyptian language, though it requires specialized fonts and software to display correctly on modern devices.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13557
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	𓕗
HTML Hex Encoding	𓕗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x95 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDD57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013557
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\udd57

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-13-022
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Man, seated, both knees raised, with covered legs and arms, with short hair/wig, holding an object consisting of one long vertical line at one end, with multiple shorter vertical lines connected to a horizontal line, with the shorter vertical line section towards the body.
kEH_Func	Logogram (to guard)
kEH_FVal	sꜣw
kEH_UniK	A047H
kEH_IFAO	18,12