Meanings
Originally representing the plan of a fortified brick enclosure with buttresslike projections. Very early this signification was forgotten and the glyph was reinterpreted as a wall. A horizontal variant is also found. Compare the Chinese character 囗.
Logogram for or determinative in jnb (“wall”).
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative for walls, as in wmtt (“fortification, bulwark”), snb (“to overleap (a wall)”).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Logogram (wall)
Represents a complete word or concept
A wall, written vertically, with battlements on the corners, and one in the middle of the long sides.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: Jnb — wall
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: Wall
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
𓊅 𓏅 𓉘𓌧𓌧𓉜
ꞽnb(.w) ḫnt.ꞽ ḥw.t-sḫt(.w)
Memphis: Krugmagazin, Gut der Weber
𓊅𓏤 𓆑 𓎟 𓂋 𓁶
ꞽnb =f nb r tp-ḥsb
jede seiner Mauern entspricht der Berechnung.
𓅯𓄿 𓊅 𓂻 𓎔𓏛
pꜣ qd.w ꞽwi̯ mḥ
der Töpfer, gekommen: vollständig.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) — translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- O36
- Unicode
- U+13285
- Category
- O
- Meanings
- 6
- Transliterations
- 6
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
