Gardiner N42

A well with a straight line of water

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Description
A well with a straight line of water
Category
N
Shape family
N-21
Unicode
U+1321F · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N042
Readings
ḥm
Functions
phonogram

Readings

ḥm
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[1]
Pronunciation
ḥm
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Phonogram · biliteral
ḥmAggregated 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+1321F

[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 N42

External data

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

Description
A well with a straight line of water.
Functions
  • Phonemogram
Readings (unreviewed)
ḥm
Core status
Core
Catalogue
N042 · N-21-004

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

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