U+13656 "𓙖" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13656 "𓙖" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, encoded in version 5.2 of the Unicode Standard. This particular character belongs to the set of hieroglyphic signs used in ancient Egyptian writing, representing a symbol that would have been carved or painted for religious, administrative, or monumental inscriptions. Its precise identity within Gardiner’s sign list or the standard hieroglyphic catalog is denoted by the placeholder "#" in its name, indicating that it is a part of the extensive repertoire of over a thousand individual signs that combine logographic and phonetic functions. As a digital representation, this code point allows for the inclusion of this ancient script in modern text systems, preserving a fragment of one of the world’s oldest writing systems for contemporary use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13656
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	𓙖
HTML Hex Encoding	𓙖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x99 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDE56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013656
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\ude56

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-26-017
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	King, seated, both knees up, with covered legs and arms, with a long straight beard and long wig, holding a flagellum (S45).
kEH_Func	Classifier king
kEH_FVal	n(y)-sw.t
kEH_UniK	A040S
kEH_HG	A40B
kEH_IFAO	39,3