Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A

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Short description: Unicode character block
Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A
RangeU+13460..U+143FF
(4,000 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsEgyptian Hieroglyphs
Unused4,000 reserved code points
Note: [1][2]

Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A is a Unicode block containing additional Egyptian hieroglyphs including those used in Ptolemaic texts.

Block

Template:Unicode chart Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A

Standardized variants

The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block has 9 variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3][4] (Rotation is clockwise when the text is rendered from left-to-right but counter-clockwise if the text is mirrored right-to-left.)[3]

  • Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 4 signs by 90°:
    U+13BE8–13BEA and 13F72
  • VS2 (U+FE01) can be used to rotate 2 signs by 180°:
    U+13F1F and 14274
  • VS3 (U+FE02) can be used to rotate 1 sign by 270°:
    U+14274
  • VS6 (U+FE05) can be used to rotate 1 sign by approximately 250°:
    U+14274
  • VS7 (U+FE06) can be used to rotate 1 sign by approximately 340°:
    U+14274
Rotational variants
Code point 0°
            		 90°
U+FE00		 180°
U+FE01		 ~250°
U+FE05		 270°
U+FE02		 ~340°
U+FE06
U+13BE8 𓯨 𓯨︀
U+13BE9 𓯩 𓯩︀
U+13BEA 𓯪 𓯪︀
U+13F1F 𓼟 𓼟︁
U+13F72 𓽲 𓽲︀
U+14274 𔉴 𔉴︁ 𔉴︅ 𔉴︂ 𔉴︆

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
16.0 U+13460..143FA 3,995 L2/16-257 N4751 Suignard, Michel (2016-09-19), Source analysis of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire (Hieroglyphica based) 
L2/17-073 (proposal, sign_db) N4788 (proposal, sign_db) Suignard, Michel (2017-03-19), New draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire (Hieroglyphica based) 
L2/17-415 (proposal, sign_db) N4924 (proposal, sign_db) Suignard, Michel (2017-11-27), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire 
L2/18-039 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals 
L2/18-165 N4944 Suignard, Michel (2018-04-17), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire (Hieroglyphica based) 
L2/19-052R N5019R Suignard, Michel (2019-02-09), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire / First Tranche: Human, God and Goddess 
L2/19-220 N5063 Suignard, Michel (2019-05-21), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire / First Tranche: Human, God and Goddess / Second Tranche: Human parts, Mammals, Mammal parts 
L2/19-286 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-068R (pdf, appendix) Suignard, Michel (2020-03-12), Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire, all Groups (A to Z and AA) 
L2/20-105 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-009 Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes 
L2/21-108 N5163 Suignard, Michel (2021-06-14), Consideration for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/23-109 (proposal, sign_db) N5215 (proposal, sign_db) Suignard, Michel; Anderson, Deborah; Dils, Peter; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Gülden, Svenja; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Richmond, Robert et al. (2023-04-18), Draft encoding proposal for an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire 
L2/23-083 Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-04-21), Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals 
L2/23-164 Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-07-21), Recommendations to UTC #176 July 2023 on Script Proposals 
L2/23-157 Constable, Peter (2023-07-31), UTC #176 Minutes 
L2/23-238R Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-11-01), Recommendations to UTC #177 November 2023 on Script Proposals 
L2/23-181R2 N5240R2 (proposal, sign_db) Suignard, Michel (2023-12-29), Encoding proposal for an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire 
L2/24-013R Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals 
L2/24-006 Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), UTC #178 Minutes 
L2/24-238 Werning, Daniel A. (2024-10-10), Additional Variation Selectors for Rotations of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts [Affects U+13BE8-13BEA, 13F1F, 13F72, and 14274] 
L2/24-228 Kučera, Jan (2024-11-01), Recommendations to UTC #181 (November 2024) on Script Proposals 
L2/24-221 Constable, Peter (2024-11-12), UTC #181 Minutes, "Accept the variation sequences for Egyptian hieroglyph rotations" 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0. Unicode, Inc. September 2025. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-11/#G49532. 
  4. ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt. 



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