Meanings
Representing a fallen man with blood streaming from his head. This and other glyphs depicting men conventionally color the skin red; the hair is typically black, and the clothing white (sometimes with black outlines or details). The blood is red. Some scribes reinterpreted or depicted the blood as an axe, with a red (wood) handle and white (simple stone) axehead.
Determinative for death, as in mwt (โto dieโ).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Determinative for enemies, as in แธซftj (โenemyโ).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Classifier rebel, opponent
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Man, curled up, right and left lower legs separated, back nearly horizontal, both arms forward, forearms horizontal, grasping a line of liquid (blood) which comes from the head.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Determinative: Death
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Determinative: Enemy
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
๐ธ๐๐ ฑ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐
mtw.t.PL h๊ฝw mwt.t(๊ฝ)
ist das Gift des Monsters tot.
๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐
๊ฝn m(w)t m(w)t แธฅn๊ฅ แบr.PL =f
Ein Sterblicher, er stirbt ebenso wie (wรถrtl.: zusammen mit) seine Untergebenen.
๐ ฑ๐ง๐ด ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐
wdiฬฏ ลก๊ฅ.t.PL =f m แธซft(.๊ฝ).PL =f
der sein Gemetzel unter seinen Feinden anrichtet,
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- A14
- Unicode
- U+13010
- Category
- A
- Meanings
- 6
- Transliterations
- 5
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
