U+13AFE "𓫾" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13AFE "𓫾" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which encodes signs from the ancient Egyptian writing system. This particular character represents a hieroglyphic symbol, but as a generic placeholder often labeled with a "#" in its name, its exact phonetic or semantic value is not defined in the Unicode standard, and it typically corresponds to a sign from a specific Gardiner list category or a later addition to the hieroglyphic repertoire. The character is used in digital text to represent a single hieroglyph, enabling modern documentation and study of ancient Egyptian language and script in electronic formats.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13AFE
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	𓫾
HTML Hex Encoding	𓫾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xAB 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDEFE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013AFE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udefe

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	E-20-042
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas), seated, with a cobra (Naja haje), standing up, with expanded hood (uraeus) (I64) on its head.
kEH_Func	Logogram (lady of writing)
kEH_FVal	nb.t-sš
kEH_UniK	HJ E194
kEH_JSesh	E194
kEH_HG	E194