U+14160 "𔅠" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𔅠

U+14160 "𔅠" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically belonging to the subset of signs known as "Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls" rather than a standard pictographic glyph. This particular code point serves as a formatting or control character used to indicate a placeholder for an unspecified hieroglyph, often employed in digital text to represent a missing or unknown sign within a sequence of Egyptian writing. Its purpose is to maintain structural integrity in encoded hieroglyphic texts where the exact character cannot be identified or assigned, thereby supporting accurate transcription and rendering in academic and computational contexts related to ancient Egyptian language studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+14160
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	𔅠
HTML Hex Encoding	𔅠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x85 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDD60
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00014160
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udd60

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	S-05-005
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A head-cloth, with an uraeus, with a piece of cloth extending at the back.
kEH_Func	Classifier headcloth
kEH_FVal	ꜥfn(.t)
kEH_UniK	HJ S057C
kEH_JSesh	S57C
kEH_HG	S57C
kEH_IFAO	368,9