N21
๐Transliteration
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Meanings
Representing a tongue of land or perhaps a standard cultivated parcel (surveyed parcels for farming were usually shaped like elongated trapezoids, with the long sides parallel to the Nile). Compare the Chinese character ็ฐ. This glyph originally developed as a variant of the earlier N22 (๐). In the 8th Dynasty N36 (๐) came to be used instead as the determinative for cultivated land, and in the 11th Dynasty this developed into N23 (๐), but in the 18th Dynasty N21 became more widely used and took their place as the ordinary determinative for this purpose.
Logogram for jdb (โriverbankโ).
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative for land, particularly cultivated land near water, as in jdb (โriverbankโ), t๊ฃ (โland, groundโ), dmj (โtown, harborโ).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Logogram (riverbank)
Represents a complete word or concept
A tongue of land.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: Jdb โ land
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: Land
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐
แธ๊ฃiฬฏ =f b๊ฝ๊ฃ
Mรถge er das Firmament durchqueren.
๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ด๐ง๐ ๐ด๐ก ๐ค
๊ฝnk แธฅmt sd qs
Ich bin das Erz, das den Knochen zerbricht.
๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฟ ๐๐๐ป ๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ค
๊ฝ kh๊ฃ priฬฏ m t๊ฃ
O Rasender, der aus der Erde hervorkommt!
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- N21
- Unicode
- U+13205
- Category
- N
- Meanings
- 6
- Transliterations
- 7
- Source
- both
- Text examples
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