U+142AB "𔊫" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𔊫

U+142AB "𔊫" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph included in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, that represents a numeric placeholder or generic hieroglyphic sign used in the context of Egyptological transliteration and digital encoding. This character belongs to a large standardized set of over a thousand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs added to Unicode to facilitate scholarly and digital reproduction of texts from temples, tombs, and papyri. Its precise visual form and meaning are defined by the Gardiner sign list or similar Egyptological classification, often serving as a stand in for a missing or unspecified hieroglyphic value in digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+142AB
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	𔊫
HTML Hex Encoding	𔊫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8A 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDEAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000142AB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udeab

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-08-002
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	An adze with an attached blade at the front.
kEH_Func	Classifier claw, nail
kEH_FVal	ꜥn.t
kEH_UniK	HJ U019A
kEH_JSesh	U19A
kEH_HG	U19A
kEH_IFAO	394,12