U+138CF "𓣏" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓣏

U+138CF "𓣏" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific sign from the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, which was the formal writing system used in ancient Egypt for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and everyday records. This character belongs to a large block of hieroglyphs encoded in Unicode to aid in digital representation and scholarly study of the Egyptian language. While the exact meaning of many hieroglyphs depends on context and combination with other signs, U+138CF is part of a range that often corresponds to phonetic sounds, determinatives, or logograms for objects or concepts. The introduction of such codepoints into the Unicode standard allows researchers, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately display and analyze ancient Egyptian writing in modern digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+138CF
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	𓣏
HTML Hex Encoding	𓣏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA3 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDCCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000138CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udccf

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-37-014
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	Goddess, standing, with a cloth band around her head, with a feather (H6) on her head, right arm forward, hand at the height of the waist, holding a sceptre with a straight shaft, forked bottom and head of the Seth animal (S40) of the same size as the woman, left arm hanging beside the body, holding a tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign, S34).
kEH_Func	Classifier truth
kEH_FVal	mꜥꜣ.t
kEH_UniK	HJ C175
kEH_JSesh	C175
kEH_HG	C175
kEH_IFAO	86,7