U+13480 "" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# Unicode Character
U+13480 "" Egyptian Hieroglyph-# is a sign from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, specifically part of the Gardiner sign list category representing numerals, and it typically depicted a loaf of bread or a similar object used in accounting and measurement contexts. This character, encoded in the Unicode Standard's Egyptian Hieroglyphs block (range U+13000–U+1342F), allows modern digital representation of a symbol originally used in Egyptian writing systems from around 3200 BCE onward, often appearing in administrative or religious texts to denote numeric values or fractions. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates scholarly research, digital archiving, and typographic reproduction of ancient Egyptian documents without requiring specialized fonts or manual transcription.