U+13723 "𓜣" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13723 "𓜣" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically categorized under the Gardiner sign list as a representation of a seated man with a hand to his mouth, often associated with the concept of eating, drinking, or speaking. This glyph belongs to the broader category of human figures and occupations in ancient Egyptian writing, where it typically denotes actions related to consumption or verbal expression in religious and funerary texts. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, allowing modern scholars and enthusiasts to accurately render and analyze this symbol from a writing system that dates back over five thousand years.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13723
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	𓜣
HTML Hex Encoding	𓜣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0x9C 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80D 0xDF23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013723
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80d\udf23

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-05-036
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Woman, standing, with long hair, right arm forward, hand at the height of the waist, holding a stem of papyrus with a bud (M131) or flower, of the height of the woman, vertically, left arm hanging beside the body.
kEH_Func	Logogram (sovereign)
kEH_FVal	ꞽt.yt
kEH_UniK	B122