U+1368E "𓚎" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1368E "𓚎" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is an obscure symbol from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically designed to appear as a placeholder or generic hieroglyphic sign within digital text encoding. Its official name, "Egyptian Hieroglyph-#," indicates that it represents a numbered but unspecified glyph, often used in scholarly or computational contexts where a specific determinative or phonetic sign is not relevant. This character allows for the notation of an abstract hieroglyph without assigning it a particular meaning or sound, making it useful for typographic representation, templating, or as a fallback in scripts discussing Egyptian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1368E
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	𓚎
HTML Hex Encoding	𓚎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x9A 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDE8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001368E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\ude8e

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-29-013
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	King, seated, both knees up, with covered legs and arms, with a long straight beard, wearing the red crown with (S3), holding a crook (S38) vertically, with the opening outwards.
kEH_Func	Logogram (king of Lower Egypt)
kEH_FVal	bꞽ.ty
kEH_UniK	A045G