U+13442 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF BLANK

The Unicode character U+13442, officially named EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF BLANK, was introduced in Unicode version 15.0. It is part of the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Egyp script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.