U+13F24 "𓼤" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+13F24 "𓼤" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the extended Egyptian Hieroglyph repertoire, included in Unicode’s Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block, which was added to support the accurate representation of ancient Egyptian writing. This particular character is a placeholder or a generic hieroglyph marker, often used in digital encoding contexts to denote an undetermined or unspecified hieroglyphic sign when the exact identifier is unknown or not yet assigned a unique code point. It serves a practical role in preservation and research, allowing scholars to transcribe inscriptions without losing the positional or structural information of the text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+13F24
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	𓼤
HTML Hex Encoding	𓼤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x93 0xBC 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD80F 0xDF24
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00013F24
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud80f\udf24

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	N-16-009
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A hill, with a halo of sun rays behind it, represented as separate rays.
kEH_Func	Logogram (to appear, to be shining)
kEH_FVal	ḫꜥꞽ
kEH_UniK	N028F
kEH_IFAO	275,6