Gardiner N40
A rectangular pool (N37), on top of legs in a walking posture, feet orientated towards the reading direction (D54)
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed- Description
- A rectangular pool (N37), on top of legs in a walking posture, feet orientated towards the reading direction (D54)
- Category
- N
- Shape family
- N-20
- Unicode
- U+1321D · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N040
- Readings
- šm
- Functions
- logogram
Readings
- šm
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- šm
- Note
- Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.
Functions
- Logogram
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+1321D
- [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 N40
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A rectangular pool (N37), on top of legs in a walking posture, feet orientated towards the reading direction (D54).
- Functions
- Logogram (to go)
- Readings (unreviewed)
- šm
- Core status
- Core
- Catalogue
- N040 · N-20-033
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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