U+1426C "𔉬" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1426C "𔉬" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is one of many hieroglyphic symbols included in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support digital representation of ancient Egyptian writing. This specific glyph represents a distinct pictographic sign from the vast corpus of Middle Egyptian script, often corresponding to a specific object, concept, or phonetic value as identified by Egyptologists and encoded in the Gardiner sign list or similar classification systems. Its inclusion allows scholars, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately render and share ancient Egyptian texts in modern digital formats, preserving the visual and linguistic details of a writing system that was used for religious, administrative, and monumental inscriptions along the Nile for over three millennia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1426C
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	𔉬
HTML Hex Encoding	𔉬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x89 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDE6C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001426C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\ude6c

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	T-16-008
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A bird trap, with two vertical poles at the back, with a line running from the front to the vertical poles, with two upward ticks at the front of the line.
kEH_Func	Phono-repeater
kEH_FVal	sḫt
kEH_UniK	HJ T026A
kEH_JSesh	T26A
kEH_HG	T26A
kEH_IFAO	426,8