Gardiner I2

A freshwater turtle

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Description
A freshwater turtle
Category
I
Shape family
I-02
Unicode
U+13189 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH I002
Readings
štw
Functions
classifier

Readings

štw
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]
Pronunciation
štw
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Classifier
štwAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]

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+13189

[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 I2

External data

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

Description
A freshwater turtle.
Functions
  • Classifier turtle
Readings (unreviewed)
štw
Core status
Core
Catalogue
I002 · I-02-001

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

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