Gardiner G43

A quail chick (Coturnix coturnix)

G · Birds

Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

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

Readings and pronunciation

w: Phonogram · uniliteral
[1][2]

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

Example words

mdw: 𓌃
𓂧
𓅱
Spelled with S43, D46, G43
words, speech
Role: Phonogram
[3]
hrw: 𓉔
𓂋
𓅱
𓇳
Spelled with O4, D21, G43, N5
day
Role: Phonogram
[3]

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 G43; Sign-list Z7
[2]: Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+13171
[3]: Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.
Cited for: s.v. mdw; s.v. hrw