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°: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 0° 90°U+FE00 180°U+FE01 ~250°U+FE05 270°U+FE02 ~340°U+FE06 U+13BE8 ︀ U+13BE9 ︀ U+13BEA ︀ U+13F1F ︁ U+13F72 ︀ U+14274 ︁ ︅ ︂ ︆
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 16.0 U+13460..143FA 3,995 N4751 sign_db) sign_db) sign_db) sign_db) N4944 N5019R N5063 appendix) N5163 sign_db) sign_db) sign_db)
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