U+13B92 "𓮒" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13B92 "𓮒" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a purely abstract placeholder symbol within the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically encoded as a non-lexical formatting character rather than a recognizable hieroglyphic sign. Unlike actual Egyptian hieroglyphs that represent specific sounds, words, or concepts, this character was introduced into Unicode to serve as a generic fallback or numbering placeholder, often used in digital contexts to denote a missing, unknown, or generic hieroglyphic glyph. Its inclusion allows text processing systems to maintain structural integrity in hieroglyphic sequences or indexes when a particular sign is not available in a given font, effectively functioning as a typographic wildcard rather than a historical character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13B92
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	𓮒
HTML Hex Encoding	𓮒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xAE 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80E 0xDF92
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013B92
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80e\udf92

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	F-08-011
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	The forepart of a lion, standing.
kEH_Func	Logogram (beginning, front)
kEH_FVal	ḥꜣ.t
kEH_UniK	HJ F004A
kEH_JSesh	F4A
kEH_HG	F4A
kEH_IFAO	153,5