Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A

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

Block

Standardized variants

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

• Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 4 signs by 90°:<br />U+13BE8–13BEA and 13F72
• VS2 (U+FE01) can be used to rotate 2 signs by 180°:<br />U+13F1F and 14274
• VS3 (U+FE02) can be used to rotate 1 sign by 270°:<br />U+14274
• VS6 (U+FE05) can be used to rotate 1 sign by approximately 250°:<br />U+14274
• VS7 (U+FE06) can be used to rotate 1 sign by approximately 340°:<br />U+14274

History

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

See also

• Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
• Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

References

External links

• The Unikemet database in Unicode 16.0.0