U+142F8 "𔋸" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+142F8 "𔋸" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which encodes writing symbols used in ancient Egyptian literature and monumental inscriptions. This particular character, identified by the placeholder "-#" in its name, likely represents a determinative, phonogram, or logogram from the extensive hieroglyphic repertoire, though its precise meaning or phonetic value is not explicitly defined in the Unicode standard and must be cross-referenced with Egyptological sources such as Gardiner's sign list.

General Properties

Code Point	U+142F8
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	𔋸
HTML Hex Encoding	𔋸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8B 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDEF8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000142F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udef8

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-16-045
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	An astronomical instrument, resembling a façade of a shrine with a flat roof, with oblique sides, with a large doorway (O21B), on a long base, beside a sandy hill slope (N29), with a line coming from the top of the shrine, with a plummet at the end of the line, below the base of the shrine.
kEH_Func	Logogram (service, task)
kEH_FVal	wnw.t
kEH_UniK	U039T