Road (hieroglyph)

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Road (hieroglyph)
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Egyptian hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Road-with-shrubs hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N31 for a road, "street", or pathway. It originally was a curving hieroglyph, but became a standardized straight form as well.

The Road hieroglyph is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as an ideogram or determinative in the word w3t-(uat), for 'road'. [1] It is also a phonogram for hr, from the word hrt, also for 'road'.

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w3t-(uAt)
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Papyrus stem-(tril.)
w3dj-(uatch-uadj)
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papyrus stem-(tril.)--harpoon-(bil.)
--- w3dj ---- ---- u' ---


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References

  1. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "Road", p. 162.