U+138B3 "𓢳" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+138B3 "𓢳" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a sign from the Egyptian Hieroglyph block, which encodes symbols from the ancient Egyptian writing system used from around 3200 BCE onward. This specific glyph, designated as a "Hieroglyph-#" in its formal name, belongs to a subset of signs that are often less common or not yet fully identified in standard transliteration lists, but it is visually rendered as a carefully stylized figure or object typical of the script’s pictorial nature. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode allows scholars, linguists, and digital archivists to accurately represent and study ancient Egyptian texts in modern computing environments, preserving the linguistic and cultural heritage of one of history’s earliest writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+138B3
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	𓢳
HTML Hex Encoding	𓢳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA2 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDCB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000138B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udcb3

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-36-009
kEH_Core	N
kEH_UniK	HJ C164D
kEH_JSesh	C164D
kEH_HG	C164D
kEH_IFAO	84,6