U+1409C "𔂜" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1409C "𔂜" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphic script, encoded in the Unicode standard's Egyptian Hieroglyph block, which covers the classical hieroglyphic writing system of ancient Egypt. This particular character represents a distinct logographic or phonetic sign, often used in inscriptions on monuments and papyri, but its exact meaning and transliteration depend on its context within a given text, as Egyptian hieroglyphs can function as ideograms, determinatives, or phonograms. The character is part of a large repertoire of over a thousand hieroglyphs that were standardized by Unicode to support digital preservation and scholarly analysis of this ancient language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1409C
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	𔂜
HTML Hex Encoding	𔂜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x82 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDC9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001409C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udc9c

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	Q-01-011
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A block-throne on a base.
kEH_Func	Classifier throne
kEH_FVal	ns.t
kEH_UniK	HJ Q012A
kEH_JSesh	Q12A
kEH_HG	Q12A
kEH_IFAO	339,10