U+13738 "๐“œธ" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

๐“œธ

U+13738 "๐“œธ" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphic block, representing a seated human figure (often a man or god) with a distinct pose, typically used as a determinative in ancient Egyptian writing to denote concepts related to personhood, deity, or authority depending on context. This character is part of the extensive repertoire of over a thousand standardized hieroglyphs encoded in Unicode, allowing modern digital text systems to reproduce these ancient symbols for scholarly work, cultural preservation, and linguistic study. Its inclusion in the standard ensures that researchers can accurately represent and transmit the visual details of Egyptian writing without relying on images or specialized fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+13738
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 𓜸
HTML Hex Encoding 𓜸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x93 0x9C 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD80D 0xDF38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00013738
C/C++/Java Escape \ud80d\udf38

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-09-005
kEH_Core C
kEH_Desc Woman, pregnant, seated, both knees down, right arm forward, angling down towards the knee, left arm hanging beside the body, with three lines coming from the legs, central one vertical, the outer two curving from the same point as the central line.
kEH_Func Classifier nurse
kEH_FVal ๊œฃแนฏ.(y)t
kEH_UniK HJ B003A
kEH_JSesh B3A
kEH_HG B3A