Gardiner A47

Man (shepherd), seated, both knees up, with covered legs and arms, with a short straight beard and short hair/wig, holding a stick which curves inwards, with a band of string or fabric, with the ties away from the body

A · Man and his occupations

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Readings and pronunciation

Pronunciation: sꜣw
Note: Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

[1]: Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+13038
[2]: Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.
Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).