A19
𓀗Transliteration
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Meanings
Old man, standing, with a bent back, right arm forwards, holding a staff/stick near the top, with the staff at a slight backward angle, left arm hanging beside the body.
A determinative for words with the sense of 'old,' 'distinguished.'
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Biliteral phonogram for jk in the word jky (“miner”).
Represents a sound or phonetic value
Ideogram for the words jꜣk (“old”), smsw (“eldest”), and wr (“great, chief”).
Has a specialized or contextual function
Variant of the sign 𓀝.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram (old, old age)
Represents a complete word or concept
Old man, standing, with a bent back, right arm forwards, holding a staff/stick near the top, with the staff at a slight backward angle, left arm hanging beside the body.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: JAwj — old
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: Smsw — eldest
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: Wr — great
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: Jky — quarryman
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: Old
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Determinative: Lean
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
𓌢𓌸𓂋𓂋 𓀗
sn-mrr sms.w
Sen-merer, der Ältere.
𓃥𓀗𓉔𓏏𓇿
zꜣb-sms.w-hꜣy.t
Senior-Ältester der Halle.
𓀗𓉐 𓏠𓈖𓇋
sms.w-pr mnꞽ
Der Älteste des Hauses Meni.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) — translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- A19
- Unicode
- U+13017
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- A
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