U+143B7 "𔎷" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+143B7 "𔎷" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the Egyptian Hieroglyph format controls block, encoded for use in digital text systems to represent a placeholder or an undefined hieroglyphic sign. This character does not correspond to a known or classified ancient Egyptian hieroglyph but serves as a formal code point for an unassigned or generic symbol, often used in scholarly and computational contexts to denote a missing, damaged, or yet-to-be-identified sign within a corpus of hieroglyphic inscriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital representations of ancient Egyptian writing can accurately preserve the structure and spacing of original texts, even when the exact nature of a particular sign is uncertain or incomplete.

General Properties

Code Point	U+143B7
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	𔎷
HTML Hex Encoding	𔎷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8E 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDFB7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000143B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udfb7

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-11-115
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	The head of a ram without horns, on top of a jar.
kEH_Func	?
kEH_UniK	W132