U+14638 "𔘸" Anatolian Hieroglyph A516 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𔘸
U+14638 "𔘸" Anatolian Hieroglyph A516 is a sign from the Anatolian hieroglyphic script, a logo-syllabic writing system used primarily in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age to record the Luwian language in Anatolia and parts of Syria. Also known as *Luwian Hieroglyphs*, this script includes hundreds of signs, and A516 represents a specific syllabic or logographic value, often associated with a bird or a related concept based on its visual form. While the exact phonetic or semantic reading of A516 may vary among scholars, its encoding in Unicode ensures that researchers and digital humanities projects can preserve, study, and display this ancient sign accurately in modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+14638 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Anatolian Hieroglyph A516 |
| Block | Anatolian Hieroglyphs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𔘸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𔘸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x94 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD811 0xDE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00014638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud811\ude38 |
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 |