Gardiner G51
A cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), pecking and standing upon a fish with a long broad fin on its back, and two small fins on its belly
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed- Description
- A cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), pecking and standing upon a fish with a long broad fin on its back, and two small fins on its belly
- Category
- G
- Shape family
- G-11
- Unicode
- U+1317B · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G051
- Readings
- ḥꜣm
- Functions
- classifier
Readings
- ḥꜣm
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- ḥꜣm
- Note
- Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.
Functions
- Classifier
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+1317B
- [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 G51
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), pecking and standing upon a fish with a long broad fin on its back, and two small fins on its belly.
- Functions
- Classifier catching fish
- Readings (unreviewed)
- ḥꜣm
- Core status
- Core
- Catalogue
- G051 · G-11-043
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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