U+13EA8 "𓺨" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13EA8 "𓺨" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific grapheme from the Egyptian Hieroglyph Extended-B block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the encoding of ancient Egyptian writing from the Greco Roman and Ptolemaic periods. This particular character, identified as a numbered or placeholder glyph often designated by the "#" sign in its name, represents a unique hieroglyphic symbol whose precise linguistic or phonetic value is typically documented in specialized Egyptological reference works. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode enables digital preservation, academic research, and accurate rendering of ancient Egyptian texts across modern computing platforms and databases.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13EA8
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	𓺨
HTML Hex Encoding	𓺨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xBA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80F 0xDEA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013EA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80f\udea8

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-22-002
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A bundle of flax, bound together by string with the loop and tie at the back, with a pointy bottom, angled forwards, with the bolls visible on top.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	ḏr
kEH_UniK	M036A
kEH_JSesh	M36A
kEH_HG	M177
kEH_IFAO	255,10