U+13A20 "𓨠" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13A20 "𓨠" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific character within the Egyptian Hieroglyph Extended-A block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to represent a sign not yet fully identified or named, as indicated by the placeholder hash symbol. It belongs to a collection of approximately 4,000 newly encoded hieroglyphs based on the work of the Egyptologist Jochem Kahl, covering signs from the Middle Kingdom and early first millennium BCE. This character is stored in a separate Supplementary Multilingual Plane, requiring a font that supports the Egyptian Hieroglyph Extended-A range to display correctly, and it contributes to the digital preservation and study of ancient Egyptian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13A20
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	𓨠
HTML Hex Encoding	𓨠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDE20
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013A20
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\ude20

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-35-057
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A fire-drill in a piece of wood (U28), written on top of a human foot and lower leg (D58).
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	ꜣb
kEH_UniK	HJ D413
kEH_JSesh	D413
kEH_HG	D413