U+13EA2 "𓺢" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𓺢

U+13EA2 "𓺢" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a sign from the Egyptian Hieroglyph Extended-A block, officially categorized as a variant or control character rather than a standard phonetic or ideographic glyph. Its specific shape and usage derive from the broader set of hieroglyphic symbols used in ancient Egyptian writing, but in Unicode it functions primarily as a placeholder or a formatting element, often employed in digital encoding to represent a generic hieroglyph where a precise sign is not specified. This character helps maintain structural integrity in sequences of hieroglyphic text, particularly in scholarly or computational contexts where the exact grapheme may be unknown or irrelevant for the intended analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13EA2
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	𓺢
HTML Hex Encoding	𓺢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xBA 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80F 0xDEA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013EA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80f\udea2

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-18-015
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A rhizome of a lotus, with one shoot at the bottom, curved forwards, and a wavy top.
kEH_Func	Logogram (to be sweet)
kEH_FVal	bnr \| bnꞽ
kEH_UniK	M030A