U+143C4 "𔏄" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character

U+143C4 "𔏄" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a specific glyph from the ancient Egyptian writing system, encoded in Unicode’s Egyptian Hieroglyphs block (range U+13430 to U+1346F) as part of the Extended Control and Legacy encoding efforts for this complex script. This particular character represents a single hieroglyph, often referred to by its Gardiner’s sign list number or a descriptive label, though the exact phonetic or semantic value of U+143C4 is not universally standardized and may correspond to a pictographic symbol used in religious, administrative, or monumental texts from the Pharaonic period. By including such characters, Unicode enables digital preservation, research, and cross-platform display of over a thousand ancient Egyptian signs, though full rendering and font support remain limited to specialized software.

General Properties

Code Point	U+143C4
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	𔏄
HTML Hex Encoding	𔏄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x94 0x8F 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD810 0xDFC4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000143C4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud810\udfc4

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	X-04-004
kEH_Core	C
kEH_Desc	A roll of bread, with a rectangle at the middle of the top line.
kEH_Func	Classifier food
kEH_FVal	t ḥnḳ.t kꜣ ꜣpd
kEH_UniK	X004J
kEH_IFAO	462,10