Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing the
Gardiner's sign list
Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Gardiner lists only the common forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but h ...
of
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1, ...
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Block
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94
standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs:
* 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:
See also
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List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign ...
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Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for ...
Unicode block
Further reading
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References
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