U+1372F "𓜯" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓜯

U+1372F "𓜯" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2 released in 2009, and represents a specific pictographic symbol from the ancient Egyptian writing system. This particular hieroglyph, cataloged under the Gardiner sign list as a member of the category for parts of the body, depicts a stylized human arm and is used in hieroglyphic texts as a phonetic sign for the sound "a" or as a determinative in words related to actions or concepts involving the arm or hand. As a digital character, U+1372F enables modern encoding of ancient Egyptian script, facilitating academic study, digital preservation, and typographic representation of hieroglyphic texts in a standardized format.

General Properties

Code Point U+1372F
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 𓜯
HTML Hex Encoding 𓜯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x93 0x9C 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD80D 0xDF2F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001372F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud80d\udf2f

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-07-007
kEH_Core C
kEH_Desc Woman, standing, wearing the white crown (S1), right arm forward, hand at the height of the waist, holding a stem of papyrus with a bud (M131) or flower, of the size of the woman, vertically, left arm hanging beside the body, holding a tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign, S34), at the loop.
kEH_Func Logogram (king of Upper Egypt)
kEH_FVal n.y-sw.t
kEH_UniK HJ B043
kEH_JSesh B43
kEH_HG B43
kEH_IFAO 53,5