U+1358D "𓖍" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1358D "𓖍" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific sign from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, encoded in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block of the Unicode Standard for digital text representation. This particular glyph, often cataloged as Gardiner’s sign Y2V in Egyptological literature, depicts a game board piece or a component of the senet game, reflecting the cultural and recreational activities of ancient Egypt. Its inclusion in Unicode enables scholars, linguists, and digital humanities projects to accurately transcribe and preserve hieroglyphic texts in modern electronic formats, supporting research and education in Egyptology without requiring specialized fonts or software.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1358D
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	𓖍
HTML Hex Encoding	𓖍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x96 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDD8D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001358D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\udd8d

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-15-074
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Man, standing, right arm forward, holding the sun with rays of sunlight coming from it (N8) at the sun disk, at the height of the shoulder, left arm is raised, upper arm horizontal, forearm vertical, left hand palm inwards.
kEH_Func	Logogram (to illuminate)
kEH_FVal	nms
kEH_UniK	A527