U+1405C "𔁜" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1405C "𔁜" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyph block in the Unicode standard, which was added to support the digital encoding of ancient Egyptian writing, particularly for texts from the Pyramid Age and later periods. This character represents a distinct hieroglyphic sign used in the logographic and phonetic writing system of ancient Egypt, though its exact transliteration, meaning, and usage are defined within scholarly Egyptian grammars and dictionaries, not by Unicode itself. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode, under the category of other letters, enables modern researchers, linguists, and digital humanists to accurately represent, search, and preserve hieroglyphic texts in electronic documents and databases without relying solely on images or specialized fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1405C
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	𔁜
HTML Hex Encoding	𔁜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x81 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDC5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001405C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udc5c

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-03-060
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	God, standing, with the head of a falcon, with a sun disk (N5) on his head, facing towards the back, both arms raised in front, hands held vertically, hand palms outwards, in front of a goddess, standing, with a headdress of bovine horns with a sun disk (F102), right arm forward, hand at the height of the waist, holding a sceptre with a straight shaft, forked bottom and head of the Seth animal (S40) of the same size as the woman, left arm hanging beside the body, holding a tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign, S34), at the loop (C228); inside a boat/ship with a prow and stern resembling the handle of a sickle (U1), on top of a canal (N36).
kEH_Func	Classifier bark
kEH_FVal	wꞽꜣ
kEH_UniK	HJ P054
kEH_JSesh	P54
kEH_HG	P54
kEH_IFAO	330,1