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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'.
English: Chart of the Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (extIPA), as of 2015. This file uses the Unicode characters that were adopted after the publication of the chart. This file uses the Unicode characters that were adopted after the publication of the chart.
A depiction with four rays is found on an ivory wand of c. 2100 BC: The "Sun with rays" hieroglyph is shown once, placed upon the head of a ram. It has a central dot, like the "Sun" hieroglyph (N5), with four elongated, undulating vertical rays. [2] See also Aten.
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 § Parts of the human body
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script contained 24 uniliterals (symbols that stood for single consonants, much like English letters) which today we associate with the 26 glyphs listed below. (Note that the glyph associated with w/u also has a hieratic abbreviation.)
In the table, each Gardiner ID (B5) and Gardiner letter (B) is an Anchor.It can be used to access the row directly: #B, #B5 (from within the page) List of Egyptian hieroglyphs#B, List of Egyptian hieroglyphs#B5 (from another page)
for bjt (only in "king of lower Egypt" (bjt)) This hieroglyphic shows the very important hieroglyphic for bee, that stands also for honey. It is found very often on pharaonic naming-inscriptions-(as the combined term: Nesu-bity), because this hieroglyphic is a symbol for Lower Egypt together with the sedge, the symbol that stands for Upper Egypt, showing the domination of the Pharaohs over ...
Egyptian Biliteral Hieroglyphs ꜣ ỉ ꜥ w b p m n r ḥ ḫ z s q k t ṯ d ḏ ꜣ 𓄫 ꜣw F40 𓍋 ꜣb U23 𓅜𓇇 ꜣḫ G25 M15 𓊨𓄼 ꜣs