U+140B9 "𔂹" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+140B9 "𔂹" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph belonging to the Egyptian Hieroglyphics block, which encodes symbols from the ancient Egyptian writing system used for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative records. This particular character, rendered as a stylized pictorial sign, represents an abstract or determinative symbol rather than a phonetic sound, and its precise meaning and transliteration are typically referenced through specialized Egyptological databases and the Gardiner sign list, which standardizes the classification of these hieroglyphs. Like other characters in this block, it is intended for digital preservation and scholarly reproduction of ancient Egyptian texts, supporting Unicode's goal of encoding historic scripts for modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+140B9
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	𔂹
HTML Hex Encoding	𔂹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x82 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDCB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000140B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udcb9

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-05-020
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A portable shrine.
kEH_Func	Classifier shrine/chapel
kEH_FVal	kꜣr
kEH_UniK	HJ Q014
kEH_JSesh	Q14
kEH_HG	Q14