N22
𓈆Transliteration
Shape tags
Meanings
Representing a sandy tongue of land. The sand is sometimes represented as speckles across the glyph. This was the Old Kingdom precursor to both N20 (𓈄) and N21 (𓈅).
Triliteral phonogram for wḏb.
Represents a sound or phonetic value
Determinative in wḏb (“sandbank, shore”).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Determinative for land, as in ꜥḥt (“field”).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Logogram (riverbank)
Represents a complete word or concept
A tongue of land with a vertical line at the front.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Determinative: Land
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
𓊚 𓃀𓈆𓇠
šnw.t bš(ꜣ)
Ein Kornspeicher der Bescha(-Frucht).
𓊚 𓃀𓈆𓇠
šnw.t bšꜣ
Ein Speicher mit Bescha.
𓁷𓈆𓅓 𓋴𓌮𓄤
ḥr.ꞽ-wḏb-m-ḥw.t-ꜥnḫ sšm-nfr
Der Oberste der Zuwendungen im Lebenshaus Seschemnefer.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) — translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- N22
- Unicode
- U+13206
- Category
- N
- Meanings
- 6
- Transliterations
- 7
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
