U+14049 Egyptian Hieroglyph-14049

U+14049 was added in Unicode version 16.0 in 2024. It belongs to the block U+13460 to U+143FF Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+14049 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Unikemet database provides additional information about this hieroglyph. It is described there as “A boat/ship, resembling a crescent moon, with the head of a falcon, with the sun, encircled by a cobra (Naja haja), standing up, with expanded hood (Uraeus) (N6) on top of the head, on top of the prow and stern, prow lower than the stern, on top of a rectangle of water, with a shrine, seen from the side, with a downwards sloping roof, with an uraeus at the front of the roof (O18A) inside the boat/ship, with an animal (leonid?) standing, wearing headgear resembling two feathers on top of goat horns, on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12) in front of the shrine, with a god with the head of a falcon, standing in front of the rudders, controlling the rudders with a horizontal rope with an ureaus at the front.”.