U+1383A "𓠺" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓠺

U+1383A "𓠺" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically classified under the category of an unassigned or placeholder code point, often labeled as a "reserved" character. This particular glyph, while represented by a placeholder symbol in most fonts, belongs to the vast repertoire of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, which was used for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative records from around 3200 BCE. It does not directly correspond to a specific knowable sign from standard Gardiner or other hieroglyphic sign lists, as the encoding for this range often includes characters intended for future research and standardization. As a result, U+1383A is a technical placeholder within the Unicode standard, awaiting definitive mapping to a known hieroglyphic sign, and serves to document the ongoing effort to digitally preserve one of humanity's oldest writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1383A
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	𓠺
HTML Hex Encoding	𓠺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA0 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDC3A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001383A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udc3a

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-23-003
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	God, seated, knees up, with covered legs and arms, with a long straight beard, wearing a cap, holding a sceptre with a straight shaft, topped with the head of the Seth animal vertically.
kEH_Func	Classifier Ptah
kEH_FVal	ptḥ
kEH_UniK	HJ C102
kEH_JSesh	C102
kEH_HG	C102
kEH_IFAO	75,1