U+14290 "𔊐" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+14290 "𔊐" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyph Formal category within the Unicode Standard, specifically belonging to the block titled Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls. This character represents a specialized formatting control symbol rather than a stand-alone pictographic hieroglyph, serving to signal or wrap a sequence of hieroglyphs for digital processing. Its purpose is to help software applications correctly interpret groupings and alignments of ancient Egyptian writing, ensuring that the complex logographic and phonetic system is rendered with the proper spatial relationships when displayed or edited.

General Properties

Code Point	U+14290
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	𔊐
HTML Hex Encoding	𔊐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8A 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDE90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00014290
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\ude90

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	U-02-009
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A hoe with a rope connecting the two pieces, written at an angle (U6), on top of a strip of land (N17).
kEH_Func	Classifier hacking
kEH_FVal	ḫbss
kEH_UniK	HJ U007B
kEH_JSesh	U7B
kEH_HG	U7B
kEH_IFAO	390,4