Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Egyptian Hieroglyphs | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+13000..U+1342F (1,072 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| Assigned | 1,071 code points |
| Unused | 1 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.2 | 1,071 (+1,071) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Block
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs:[3]
- Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 39 signs by 90°:
U+13091–13092, 1310F, 1311C, 13121, 13127, 13139, 131A0, 131B1, 131B8–131B9, 131CB, 131F9–131FA, 1327F, 13285, 1328C, 132AA, 132CB, 132DC, 132E7, 13307, 1331B, 13322, 1333B–1333C, 13377–13378, 13399–1339A, 133D3, 133F2, 133F5–133F6, 13403, 13416, 13419–1341A and 13423 - VS2 (U+FE01) can be used to rotate 20 signs by 180°:
U+13093, 130A9, 13187, 131B1, 131EE, 131F8–131FA, 13257, 1327F, 132A4, 13308, 13312–13314, 1331B, 13321–13322, 13331 and 13419 - VS3 (U+FE02) can be used to rotate 35 signs by 270°:
U+13117, 13139, 13183, 131A0, 131BA, 131EE, 13216, 1327B, 132A4, 132E7, 132E9, 132F8, 132FD, 13302–13303, 13310–13314, 1331C, 13321, 13331, 1334A, 13361, 13373, 1337D, 13385, 133AF–133B0, 133BF, 133DD, 13419, 1342C and 1342E
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2/97-267 | N1637 | Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Basic Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Plane 1 | |||
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | ||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | |||
| L2/99-008 | N1944 | Everson, Michael (1999-01-09), Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS | |||
| L2/99-223 | N2096, N2025-1 | Schenkel, Wolfgang (1999-07-23), Comments on the question of encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs in the UCS | |||
| L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 | |||
| L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | ||||
| L2/00-153 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts | ||||
| L2/01-184R | Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting | ||||
| L2/02-281 | Snell, Daniel; Hollis, Susan; Johnson, Janet (2002-08-07), Three letters of support for encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphics | ||||
| L2/02-288 | Everson, Michael (2002-08-13), Status report on proposal encode Egyptian Hieroglyphs | ||||
| L2/02-295 | Rocchi, Federico (2002-08-13), Letter of support for encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphics | ||||
| L2/05-311 | Cook, Richard; Everson, Michael; McGowan, Rick; Richmond, Robert (2005-10-24), Revised proposal to encode Egyptian hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS | ||||
| L2/05-312 | Cook, Richard (2005-10-24), Sample of Hieroglyphic mapping data file | ||||
| L2/05-313 | Cook, Richard (2005-10-24), Scans from Catalog of the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Printing Type | ||||
| L2/06-354 | N3181 | Everson, Michael; Richmond, Bob (2006-10-29), Towards a Proposal to encode Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode | |||
| L2/06-355 | N3182 | Everson, Michael (2006-10-29), Sources for the encoding of Egyptian Hieroglyphs | |||
| L2/06-356 | N3183 | Everson, Michael; Richmond, Bob (2006-10-29), Report on progress made at the Oxford meeting of Egyptologists | |||
| L2/07-097 | N3237 | Everson, Michael (2007-04-10), Proposal to encode Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 | ||||
| L2/07-118R2 | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
| L2/07-292 | N3308 | Everson, Michael (2007-08-31), Towards a default deterministic ordering for Egyptian Hieroglyphs | |||
| L2/07-306 | N3310 | Aguizy, Ola El (2007-09-04), Letter in Support of N3237 Egyptian Hieroglyphs Proposal | |||
| L2/07-345 | Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), UTC #113 Minutes, "Accept the revised repertoire for Egyptian Hieroglyphs as documented in L2/07-322." | ||||
| L2/15-069 | Richmond, Bob (2015-02-03), Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode plain text, a note on a suggested approach | ||||
| L2/15-149 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-209 | Davis, Mark (2015-07-27), Egyptian hieroglyphs spreadsheet | ||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes | ||||
| L2/21-028 | Anderson, Deborah; Suignard, Michel (2021-01-07), Glyph changes to Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Unicode 14.0 with proposed annotations | ||||
| L2/21-016R | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/21-009 | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes | ||||
| L2/21-248 | Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-12-22), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts | ||||
| L2/22-012R | Werning, Daniel A. (2022-04-22), Rotations of Egyptian Hieroglyphs to be Registered in Unicode | ||||
| L2/22-023 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-016 | Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), UTC #170 Minutes | ||||
| 15.0 | U+1342F | 1 | L2/21-208 | Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-08-11), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts | |
| L2/21-174 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/21-248 | Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-12-22), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts | ||||
| L2/22-023 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-016 | Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), UTC #170 Minutes | ||||
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See also
- List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls Unicode block
- Egyptian transliteration schemes
Further reading
- Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2015). The 1071 hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2: Identification of the signs from the Hieratische Paläographie. https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/unicode/tablehieratic.html.
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt.
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