U+1312F EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH F044

U+1312F was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+1312F behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type OLetter for sentence and ALetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The ancient Egyptian Bone-with-meat hieroglyph is one of the Gardiner's sign list glyphs listed under Parts of Mammals. It is one of many – (52) in the category, as concepts were also presented by the body parts; for example hindquarters, and forequarters, represented things behind something, and alternatively, things at the forefront. The 'bone-with-meat' hieroglyph represented: ancestry, also inherit, (presumably bodies-souls, after death).

The Ancient Egyptian language usage of the hieroglyph means, isw, iw' (inherit, etc.); a determinative for the femur, (iw'); and swt, for the tibia.

The Old Kingdom usage on slab steles, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare ribs or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib.