U+142A3 "𔊣" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+142A3 "𔊣" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, specifically representing a sign from the ancient Egyptian writing system that was used for religious texts, monumental inscriptions, and administrative records. This particular glyph falls under the category of a hieroglyphic determinative or phonetic sign, though its exact phonetic value or meaning is not specified by the Unicode standard, which simply encodes it as a graphic symbol for digital representation. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates scholarly research, digital preservation, and the accurate rendering of ancient Egyptian texts in modern software and typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+142A3
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	𔊣
HTML Hex Encoding	𔊣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8A 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDEA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000142A3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udea3

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-06-002
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A sledge with two ties on top.
kEH_Func	Phonemogram
kEH_FVal	tm
kEH_UniK	U015B