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U+1343C BEC

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH BEGIN ENCLOSURE

Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH BEGIN ENCLOSURE
Code Point U+1343C
Decimal Value 78908
General Category Format (Cf) →
Unicode Block Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls →
Script Egyptian_Hieroglyphs →
Unicode Version Unicode 15.0 →
Unicode Plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 4 bytes F0 93 90 BC
UTF-16 Surrogate Pair D80D DC3C
High: U+D80D (\uD80D) Low: U+DC3C (\uDC3C)
UTF-32 4 bytes 0001343C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: D8 0D DC 3C LE: 0D D8 3C DC
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 01 34 3C LE: 3C 34 01 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 𓐼
HTML Hexadecimal 𓐼
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \01343C
JavaScript (ES6) \u{1343C}
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uD80D\uDC3C
JSON Escape \uD80D\uDC3C
Python \U0001343C
PHP "\u{1343C}"
Java "\uD80D\uDC3C"
C / C++ "\U0001343C"
Rust '\u{1343c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %F0%93%90%BC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+1343C represents a BEC (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH BEGIN ENCLOSURE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1343C

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