U+139EF "𓧯" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+139EF "𓧯" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block, which encodes signs from the late period of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Specifically, this character represents a hieroglyphic symbol that is part of a set used for religious, monumental, and administrative texts, though its exact semantic value or phonetic reading is not always definitively known without broader context. The extended-A block was added to Unicode to accommodate a larger corpus of hieroglyphic signs that were previously uncoded, enabling more accurate digital preservation and study of Egyptian language artifacts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+139EF
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	𓧯
HTML Hex Encoding	𓧯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA7 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDDEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000139EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\uddef

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-26-035
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	An arm, bent at the elbow, in a V shape, hand holding a staff or pole with a two-pronged end piece for holding down snakes (U116).
kEH_Func	Classifier elder/official
kEH_FVal	sr
kEH_UniK	HJ D262
kEH_JSesh	D262
kEH_HG	D262