Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block) explained

Blockname:	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Rangestart:	13000
Rangeend:	1342F
Script1:	Egyptian Hieroglyphs
5 2:	1071
Note:	^[1] ^[2]
15 0:	1

Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Block

Standardized variants

The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs:^{[3] [4]}

• 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

Rotational variants

	0°	90° U+FE00	180° U+FE01	270° U+FE02
U+13091		︀
U+13092		︀
U+13093			︁
U+130A9			︁
U+1310F		︀
U+13117				︂
U+1311C		︀
U+13121		︀
U+13127		︀
U+13139		︀		︂
U+13183				︂
U+13187			︁
U+131A0		︀		︂
U+131B1		︀	︁
U+131B8		︀
U+131B9		︀
U+131BA				︂
U+131CB		︀
U+131EE			︁	︂
U+131F8			︁
U+131F9		︀	︁
U+131FA		︀	︁
U+13216				︂
U+13257			︁
U+1327B				︂
U+1327F		︀	︁
U+13285		︀
U+1328C		︀
U+132A4			︁	︂
U+132AA		︀
U+132CB		︀
U+132DC		︀
U+132E7		︀		︂
U+132E9				︂
U+132F8				︂
U+132FD				︂
U+13302				︂
U+13303				︂
U+13307		︀
U+13308			︁
U+13310				︂
U+13311				︂
U+13312			︁	︂
U+13313			︁	︂
U+13314			︁	︂
U+1331B		︀	︁
U+1331C				︂
U+13321			︁	︂
U+13322		︀	︁
U+13331			︁	︂
U+1333B		︀
U+1333C		︀
U+1334A				︂
U+13361				︂
U+13373				︂
U+13377		︀
U+13378		︀
U+1337D				︂
U+13385				︂
U+13399		︀
U+1339A		︀
U+133AF				︂
U+133B0				︂
U+133BF				︂
U+133D3		︀
U+133DD				︂
U+133F2		︀
U+133F5		︀
U+133F6		︀
U+13403		︀
U+13416		︀
U+13419		︀	︁	︂
U+1341A		︀
U+13423		︀
U+1342C				︂
U+1342E				︂

History

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

		Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+13000..1342E	1,071		N1636
				N1637
				N1703
				N1944
				N2096,
				N2103
				N3181
				N3182
				N3183
				N3237
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				N3308
				N3310
15.0	U+1342F	1

See also

• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls Unicode block
• Egyptian transliteration schemes

Further reading

• Book: Nederhof . Mark-Jan . 2015. The 1071 hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2: Identification of the signs from the Hieratische Paläographie.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
3. Book: The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 . 11.4 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Rotation . Unicode, Inc . September 2022 .
4. Web site: Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences . The Unicode Consortium.