Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls

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Short description: Unicode block
Short description: Unicode character block
Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
RangeU+13430..U+1345F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsEgyptian Hieroglyphs
Assigned9 code points
Unused39 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.09 (+9)
Note: [1][2]
The block range was expanded from U+13430..1343F to U+13430..1345F with version 15.0.

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: 1343F → version 15: 1345F), and 29 more characters were defined.

Block

Template:Unicode chart Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls

The Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block has four variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3]

Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to expand "lost" sign shading to achieve 'continuous shading' for the following characters:[4][5]

  • U+13443 𓑃 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH LOST SIGN
  • U+13444 𓑄 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF LOST SIGN
  • U+13445 𓑅 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH TALL LOST SIGN
  • U+13446 𓑆 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH WIDE LOST SIGN

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block:

See also

References