U+1438A "𔎊" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+1438A "𔎊" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a sign from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Egyptian Hieroglyphs block (range U+13000 to U+1342F) to facilitate digital representation of this historic writing system. Although its exact phonetic value or meaning is not universally standardized without contextual reference, it belongs to a set of logographic and phonographic symbols used in religious, administrative, and monumental texts of ancient Egypt. The specific "#" in its name indicates it is a placeholder or unclassified glyph, meaning its precise identity within emerging hieroglyphic databases may be provisional or awaiting further scholarly consensus. This encoding helps preserve and make accessible the rich linguistic heritage of Egyptian civilization for modern researchers, educators, and digital humanities projects.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1438A
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	𔎊
HTML Hex Encoding	𔎊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8E 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDF8A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001438A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udf8a

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	W-10-003
kEH_Core	N
kEH_UniK	HJ W122
kEH_JSesh	W122
kEH_HG	W122