Road (hieroglyph)

N31
Road-
-with-shrubs
in 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'.

Preceded by
S40

Was scepter-(tril.) - w3s
N31

road-with-shrubs
w3t-(uAt)
Succeeded by
M13

Papyrus stem-(tril.)
w3dj-(uatch-uadj)
Succeeded by
M13
,
T21

papyrus stem-(tril.)--harpoon-(bil.)
--- w3dj ---- ---- u' ---


See also

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References

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


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