U+13800 "𓠀" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13800 "𓠀" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyph block, part of the larger effort to encode ancient Egyptian writing in digital text for scholarly and cultural preservation. This particular character, often referred to as Hieroglyph Number A001 or a generic placeholder, represents a standardized sign used in classical Egyptian inscriptions, typically depicting a seated man or a similar human figure. Its inclusion in Unicode allows researchers, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately represent and share ancient Egyptian texts across modern computer systems, bridging millennia of written history with contemporary technology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13800
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	𓠀
HTML Hex Encoding	𓠀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA0 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDC00
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013800
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udc00

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	C-13-041
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Man/god, seated on heel, right knee raised, with coif/short hair, without beard, with a sun disk (N5) on his head, arms extended at either side of the body, holding a palm branch, stripped of leaves, curving inwards at the top, connecting at the sun disk on the head; on top of a basket (V30).
kEH_Func	Logogram (million, many)
kEH_FVal	ḥḥ
kEH_UniK	HJ C078E
kEH_JSesh	C78E
kEH_HG	C78E
kEH_IFAO	70,5