Gardiner N5

The sun, within a halo

N ยท Sky, earth, water

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Readings and pronunciation

r๊œฅ
Logogramsun; the god Re
[1][2]
sw
Logogramday (in dates)
[1]
โ€”
Classifiersun, light, and units of time
[1]
Pronunciation
r๊œฅ
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Example words

r๊œฅ
๐“‚‹
๐“‚
๐“‡ณ
Spelled with D21, D36, N5

sun; the god Re

Role: Classifier

[3]
hrw
๐“‰”
๐“‚‹
๐“…ฑ
๐“‡ณ
Spelled with O4, D21, G43, N5

day

Role: Classifier

[3]

Attestations

"Son of Re" title
Formula

Royal titulary, fifth name

s๊œฃ r๊œฅ

โ€œson of Reโ€

[1]

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 N5; Excursus A

[2]

Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).

Cited for: U+131F3; U+131F4; U+131F6

[3]

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.

Cited for: s.v. r๊œฅ; s.v. hrw