U+139AB "𓦫" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓦫

U+139AB "𓦫" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block, which encodes signs from the ancient Egyptian writing system used for religious texts, monuments, and administrative records. This specific character, identified by its Gardiner code after a standardized classification of hieroglyphs, represents a determinative or phonetic symbol often depicting a human figure in a seated posture with a hand to the mouth, typically associated with concepts of eating, speaking, or thinking. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital preservation and scholarly study of Egyptian artifacts, enabling representation of these ancient symbols in modern text by defining a unique numeric code for consistent display across platforms. The glyph shape may vary slightly depending on the font, but it maintains the essential visual features derived from New Kingdom or Ptolemaic period carvings.

General Properties

Code Point U+139AB
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 𓦫
HTML Hex Encoding 𓦫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x93 0xA6 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD80E 0xDDAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000139AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud80e\uddab

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 D-19-023
kEH_Core C
kEH_Desc Two arms, lowered, with the elbows bent outwards, and the palms of the hands facing each other (D32), with a vertical line of dots written between the arms.
kEH_Func Classifier to embrace
kEH_FVal ḥpt
kEH_UniK D198A