U+13E78 "𓹸" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13E78 "𓹸" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific sign within the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which encodes characters from the ancient Egyptian writing system used for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative records. This particular glyph, cataloged under the broader category of "Egyptian Hieroglyphs" in the Unicode Standard, represents a pictographic symbol whose precise meaning or phonetic value is often identified by its Gardiner sign list reference, though its designation as a "Hieroglyph-#" indicates it is a placeholder or unassigned sign in some digital font implementations. It is part of a large repertoire of over a thousand hieroglyphic characters added to Unicode to facilitate digital preservation and scholarly study of Ancient Egyptian language and culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13E78
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	𓹸
HTML Hex Encoding	𓹸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xB9 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80F 0xDE78
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013E78
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80f\ude78

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	M-13-015
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A stem of papyrus with a flowering bud (M129), with a bud bent down on either side of the stem, on top of a plan of a crossroads in a village (O49).
kEH_Func	Logogram (Upper Egypt)
kEH_FVal	šmꜥ.w
kEH_UniK	HJ M140A
kEH_JSesh	M140A
kEH_HG	M140A
kEH_IFAO	247,12