U+14044 "𔁄" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𔁄

U+14044 "𔁄" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a rare and specialized symbol from the Egyptian Hieroglyphic block, specifically categorized as an unidentified or placeholder glyph often used to represent an unassigned or non specific hieroglyphic sign in digital text. This character, encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, serves primarily as a container or generic marker within linguistic and academic contexts, allowing scholars and software systems to indicate the presence of an Egyptian hieroglyph when the exact sign is not known, unavailable, or not yet mapped to a standard Unicode value. Its use is primarily confined to digital encoding, Egyptology research, and font development, where it helps maintain structural integrity in hieroglyphic transcriptions without requiring a precise graphical representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+14044
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	𔁄
HTML Hex Encoding	𔁄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x81 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDC44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00014044
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udc44

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	P-03-007
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A boat/ship with a prow and stern resembling the handle of a sickle (U1), on top of a rectangle resembling water, with a façade of a shrine with a flat roof, with oblique sides, with a large doorway (O21B) inside the boat/ship.
kEH_Func	Logogram (ship, boat, bark)
kEH_FVal	wꞽꜣ
kEH_UniK	HJ P036B
kEH_JSesh	P36B
kEH_HG	P36B
kEH_IFAO	328,5