Gardiner E18

A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus at the front of the standard

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Description
A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus at the front of the standard
Category
E
Shape family
E-06
Unicode
U+130E7 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E018
Readings
wp-wꜣ.wt
Functions
logogram

Readings

wp-wꜣ.wt
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Pronunciation
wp-wꜣ.wt
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Logogram
wp-wꜣ.wtWepwawetAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

Words

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Attestations

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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+130E7

[2]

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 E18

External data

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

Description
A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus at the front of the standard.
Functions
  • Logogram (Wepwawet)
Readings (unreviewed)
wp-wꜣ.wt
Core status
Core
Catalogue
E018 · E-06-018

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

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