U+1405C Egyptian Hieroglyph-1405c

U+1405C was added in Unicode version 16.0 in 2024. It belongs to the block U+13460 para U+143FF Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A in the U+10000 para U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Jeroglíficos egipcios script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1405C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Unikemet database provides additional information about this hieroglyph. It is described there as “God, standing, with the head of a falcon, with with a sun-disk (N5) on his head, facing towards the back, both arms raised in front, hands held vertically, handpalms outwards, in front of a goddess, standing, with a headdress of bovine horns with a sun disk (F102), right arm forward, hand at the hight of the waist, holding a sceptre with a straight shaft, forked bottom and head of the Seth animal (S40) of the same size as the woman, left arm hanging beside the body, holding a tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh-sign, S34), at the loop (C228); inside a boat/ship with a prow and stern resembling the handle of a sickle (U1), on top of a canal (N36).”.