U+144F6 "𔓶" Anatolian Hieroglyph A215 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𔓶

U+144F6 "𔓶" Anatolian Hieroglyph A215 is a logogram from the Anatolian Hieroglyphic script, used primarily in the Bronze and Iron Ages to write the Luwian language in what is now modern Turkey and northern Syria. This specific glyph represents a stylized human head, typically interpreted as the word for "man" or "person," and belongs to a corpus of over 500 signs that were deciphered in the 20th century. It appears in monumental inscriptions on stone, such as those at Hattusa and Carchemish, where it functioned either ideographically or as a phonetic component within composite words. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Anatolian Hieroglyphs block, allowing for digital representation and study of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+144F6
Version Added 8.0
Name Anatolian Hieroglyph A215
Block Anatolian Hieroglyphs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𔓶
HTML Hex Encoding 𔓶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x94 0x93 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD811 0xDCF6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000144F6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud811\udcf6

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 Anatolian Hieroglyphs
Script Extensions Anatolian 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