Meanings
Representing a road lined with shrubs. The depicted road tended to be curved in the early phases of the Old Kingdom, and such curved variants occasionally appeared even much later, when the most common form had become straight. The phonogrammatic value of แธฅr is derived by the rebus principle from its use in แธฅrt (โroadโ).
Biliteral phonogram for แธฅr.
Represents a sound or phonetic value
Logogram for w๊ฃt (โroadโ).
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram for w๊ฃj (โto fall into (a condition)โ).
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative for words relating to roads, travel, position, and distance.
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Logogram (road)
Represents a complete word or concept
A road with two shrubs at the top, and one at the bottom.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: ^jnj-Hrt โ Onuris
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: Hrw โ besides
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: WA โ fall
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: ^Hr โ Horus
Represents a complete word or concept
Logogram: WAt โ road
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: Road, travel, position
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐
sw dy
(Denn) er ist hier.
๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ฅ ๐
w๊ฃแธ.w 1/64
Malachit: 1/64 (Hekat = 1 MR-Dja).
๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐
แธฅm-k๊ฃ nfr-w๊ฃ.wt
Der Totenpriester Nefer-waut.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- N31
- Unicode
- U+13210
- Category
- N
- Meanings
- 12
- Transliterations
- 15
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
