Gardiner Aa1

A human placenta (a circle with lines written horizontally)

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Description
A human placenta (a circle with lines written horizontally)
Category
Aa
Shape family
F-31
Unicode
U+1340D · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH AA001
Readings
ḫ
Functions
phonogram

Readings

ḫ
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
Pronunciation
ḫ
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Phonogram · uniliteral
ḫAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

Words

ꜥnḫ
Spelled with S34, N35, Aa1

life, live

  • Middle Egyptian

Role: Role not recorded

Attestations

Through words

Royal epithet
Formula
  • Middle Egyptian

After royal names on monuments

dꞽ ꜥnḫ ḏt

“given life forever”

via ꜥnḫ (life, live)

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Sources

[1]

Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).

Cited for: U+1340D

[2]

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.

Cited for: s.v. ꜥnḫ

[3]

Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.

Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).

Cited for: Excursus A; Sign-list Aa1

External data

From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source

Description
A human placenta (a circle with lines written horizontally).
Functions
  • Phonemogram
Readings (unreviewed)
ḫ
Core status
Core
Catalogue
AA001 · F-31-003

Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.

History

  1. Direct edit

    Changed sign Aa1

    Common rank
    — → 14

    Edited by Archive maintainers