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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 40 signs by 90°:
Letter Description Category (individual hieroglyph articles) A § Man and his occupations: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: man and his occupations (4) B § Woman and her occupations: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: woman and her occupations (0) C § Anthropomorphic deities: Category:Egyptian hieroglyphs: anthropomorphic deities (0) D
Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not normally indicate vowels, unlike cuneiform, and for that reason has been labelled by some as an abjad, i.e., an alphabet without vowels. Thus, hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'.
Template documentation {{ Unicode chart Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block. Usage
Template documentation {{ Unicode chart Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A block. Usage
Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs. The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: 1343F → version 15: 1345F ), and 29 more characters were defined.
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status 1 1 no description Unknown optional See also {{ script }} The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Script/Egyptian Hieroglyphs/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages. Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages ...