U+1370C "𓜌" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1370C "𓜌" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, representing a sign that depicts a stylized pool or basin of water, often associated with the concept of a lake, marsh, or a body of water in ancient Egyptian writing. This hieroglyph, classified under Gardiner’s sign list as part of the water-related symbols, was used phonetically for the sound “š” (sh) and ideographically to denote water or liquid, appearing in inscriptions on temple walls, papyri, and artifacts to convey both literal and symbolic meanings tied to the Nile’s life-giving floods and the afterlife’s watery realms. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that modern digital text can accurately reproduce this ancient symbol for scholarly, historical, and typographic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1370C
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	𓜌
HTML Hex Encoding	𓜌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x9C 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDF0C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001370C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\udf0c

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	B-04-023
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Woman, seated on a chair, with long hair, both arms forward, forearms horizontal, one above the other, holding a stem of papyrus with a bud (M131) or flower, of the length of the seated figure, vertically.
kEH_Func	Logogram (to be noble)
kEH_FVal	šps
kEH_UniK	B121