U+1CE23 "𜸣" Large Type Piece Short Upper Terminal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𜸣

U+1CE23 "𜸣" Large Type Piece Short Upper Terminal is a symbol encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the range allocated for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic control characters and formatting marks used in the digital representation of the Gardiner's sign list, though its exact functional description remains highly specialized. This character represents a specific typographic control glyph known as the "large type piece short upper terminal," which was likely employed in the digital encoding of Egyptian hieroglyphic texts to indicate the end or termination point of a line or a section of a larger hieroglyphic composition, particularly where a shorter vertical or horizontal segment meets an upper boundary. As part of a set of formatting characters for hieroglyphic typesetting, its purpose is to ensure precise visual alignment and structural clarity in complex text layouts, distinguishing it from standard punctuation or spacing marks. The inclusion of such a ch

General Properties

Code Point U+1CE23
Version Added 16.0
Name Large Type Piece Short Upper Terminal
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜸣
HTML Hex Encoding 𜸣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDE23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CE23
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\ude23

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 Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other