Gardiner NU18
A falcon, standing, with extended wings at either side of the body, at 45 degree; on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed- Description
- A falcon, standing, with extended wings at either side of the body, at 45 degree; on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)
- Category
- NU
- Shape family
- G-13
- Unicode
- U+13249 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH NU018
- Readings
- dwn-ꜥn.wy
- Functions
- logogram
Readings
- dwn-ꜥn.wy
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- dwn-ꜥn.wy
- 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+13249
- [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 NU18
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A falcon, standing, with extended wings at either side of the body, at 45 degree; on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24).
- Functions
- Logogram (18th nome of Upper Egypt (known as nmty as well))
- Readings (unreviewed)
- dwn-ꜥn.wy
- Core status
- Core
- Catalogue
- NU018 · G-13-028
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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