Gardiner D36

A forearm, with the palm of the hand facing upwards

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

ꜥ
Phonogram · uniliteral
[1][2]
ꜥ
Logogramarm, hand (usually with a stroke)
[1][3]
Pronunciation
ꜥ
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Example words

ꜥ
𓂝
𓏤
Spelled with D36, Z1

arm

Role: Logogram

[3]
rꜥ
𓂋
𓂝
𓇳
Spelled with D21, D36, N5

sun; the god Re

Role: Phonogram

[3]
ꜥꜣ
𓉻
𓂝
𓄿
Spelled with O29, D36, G1

great

Role: Phonogram

[3]

Attestations

Story of Sinuhe, opening
Text

P. Berlin 10499 (R), line 1

ꞽry-pꜥt ḥꜣty-ꜥ

“The hereditary noble and count”

ḥꜣty-ꜥ ends with the arm sign as ꜥ.

[4]

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 D36; Sign-list D37

[2]

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

Cited for: U+1309D

[3]

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

Cited for: s.v. ꜥ; s.v. rꜥ; s.v. ꜥꜣ

[4]

Koch, Roland. Die Erzählung des Sinuhe. Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 17. Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1990.

Cited for: R 1