Gardiner D21

A mouth

D · Parts of the human body

Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

Curated notes on this page are not yet reviewed against the cited works.

Readings and pronunciation

r: Phonogram · uniliteral
[1][2]
rꜣ: Logogrammouth; utterance, spell (usually with a stroke)
[1][3]

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

Example words

rꜣ: 𓂋
𓏤
Spelled with D21, Z1
mouth
Role: Logogram
[3]
rn: 𓂋
𓈖
Spelled with D21, N35
name
Role: Phonogram
[3]
r: 𓂋
Spelled with D21
to, towards (preposition)
Role: Phonogram
[1]

Sources

[1]: Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.
Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).
Cited for: Sign-list D21
[2]: Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+1308B; U+1308C
[3]: Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.
Cited for: s.v. rꜣ; s.v. rn