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Glyph for U+1337B
Source: Noto Sans EgyptHiero

U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c

U+1337B was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block U+13000 to U+1342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF 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+1337B behaves as Close Punctuation regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the feature did not come into common use until the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu. While the cartouche is usually vertical with a horizontal line, if it makes the name fit better it can be horizontal, with a vertical line at the end (in the direction of reading). The ancient Egyptian word for cartouche was shenu, and the cartouche was essentially an expanded shen ring. Demotic script reduced the cartouche to a pair of brackets and a vertical line.

Of the five royal titularies it was the prenomen (the throne name), and the "Son of Ra" titulary (the so-called nomen name given at birth), which were enclosed by a cartouche.

At times amulets took the form of a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs. Archaeologists often find such items important for dating a tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing good luck and protection from evil.

The term "cartouche" was first applied by French soldiers who fancied that the symbol they saw so frequently repeated on the pharaonic ruins they encountered resembled a muzzle-loading firearm's paper powder cartridge (cartouche in French).

As a hieroglyph, a cartouche can represent the Egyptian-language word for "name". It is listed as no. V10 in Gardiner's Sign List.

Representations

System Representation
NΒΊ 78715
UTF-8 F0 93 8D BB
UTF-16 D8 0C DF 7B
UTF-32 00 01 33 7B
URL-Quoted %F0%93%8D%BB
HTML hex reference 𓍻
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Γ°β€œΒΒ»

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH V011C
Unicode 1 Name β€”
Block Egyptian Hieroglyphs
General Category Other Letter
Script Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Case Folding Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic βœ”
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base βœ”
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue βœ”
ID Start βœ”
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic ✘
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category β€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name β€”
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space ✘
XID Continue βœ”
XID Start βœ”
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment β€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Close Punctuation
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+1337B Egyptian Hieroglyph V011c
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U