A wick of twisted flax, consisting of 3 loops (V28), in front of the red crown (S3), in front of three ripples of water, vertically aligned above one another (N35A); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24) (NU11a)

Readings

ḥw-n.t: Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]

Pronunciation: ḥw-n.t
Note: Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Logogram: ḥw-n.tcommonly under stẖ/stš/šꜣAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]

Words

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Related signs

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Grouped by the Unikemet catalog [reference]

𓈇N23 · An irrigation canal 𓈈N24 · A parcel of land with irrigation ditches 𓈭NL13 · A double forked tool for the mending of nets, with a broad middle section (V26), written vertically, in front of a crook (S38); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)𓈮NL14 · A schematic representation of three sealed water pots in a rack, without horizontal line at the bottom, with the downward lines descending to the bottom (W017A), in front of a spear made into a standard, with a circle on either side of the spear tip, with a loop over the standard (Jsesh R15); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)𓈱NL17 · A tusk of an elephant (F18), above a human hand (D46); above a half round loaf of bread (X1) beside a plan of a crossroads in a village (O49); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)𓈲NL17a · A windpipe and lungs (F36), in front of a cluster of signs consisting of a tusk of an elephant (F18), above a human hand (D46); above a half round loaf of bread (X1) beside a plan of a crossroads in a village (O49); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)𓈳NL18 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH NL018 𓈴NL19 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH NL019

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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+13242
[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 NU11a

External data

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

Description: A wick of twisted flax, consisting of 3 loops (V28), in front of the red crown (S3), in front of three ripples of water, vertically aligned above one another (N35A); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24).
Functions: Logogram (11th nome of Upper Egypt (commonly under stẖ/stš/šꜣ)
Readings (unreviewed): ḥw-n.t
Core status: Core
Catalogue: NU011A · N-11-048

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