U+13693 "𓚓" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓚓

U+13693 "𓚓" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific symbol from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, categorized as a sign representing a young animal or a game piece in the ancient writing system. This particular glyph belongs to the category of phonograms or ideograms used in Middle Egyptian, often transliterated as "ms" or associated with the concept of "offspring" or "birth." It forms part of the broader set of over a thousand hieroglyphs encoded in Unicode to support scholarly text processing and digital preservation of ancient Egyptian language. The character's exact shape and usage can vary depending on the historical period and context, but it remains a valuable tool for linguists, historians, and enthusiasts working with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13693
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	𓚓
HTML Hex Encoding	𓚓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x9A 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDE93
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013693
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\ude93

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-29-022
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	King, standing, with a long straight beard, wearing the red crown (S3), right arm forward, holding a stem of papyrus with a bud (M131), of the height of the king, left arm hanging beside the body, holding a flagellum (S45) horizontally.
kEH_Func	Logogram (king of Lower Egypt and land, when occurring together with king of Upper Egypt forms n(.y)-sw.t-bꞽ.ty nb tꜣ.wy)
kEH_FVal	bꞽ.ty tꜣ
kEH_UniK	A302H