Gardiner NU3

Two feathers (H6), orientated outwards, on top of a plan of a prehistoric building at the town of Nekhen, written as a circle / A circle with two vertical strokes, arranged horizontally, written within it (O48); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)

NU · Nome standards of Upper Egypt

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Readings and pronunciation

nḫn
Logogram3rd nome of Upper Egypt
[1]
Pronunciation
nḫn
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Sources

[1]

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

Cited for: U+13238

[2]

Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.

Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).