Gardiner S34

A tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign)

Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed

Curated notes on this page are not yet reviewed against the cited works.

Description
A tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign)
Category
S
Shape family
S-17
Unicode
U+132F9 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S034
Readings
ꜥnḫ
Functions
phonogram, logogram

Readings

ꜥnḫ
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]
Pronunciation
ꜥnḫ
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Functions

Phonogram · triliteral
ꜥnḫAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1]
Logogram
ꜥnḫlife, liveAggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
[1][2]

Words

ꜥnḫ
𓋹
𓈖
𓐍
Spelled with S34, N35, Aa1

life, live

  • Middle Egyptian

Role: Logogram · Reading: ꜥnḫ

[3]

Attestations

Royal epithet
Formula
  • Middle Egyptian

After royal names on monuments

dꞽ ꜥnḫ ḏt

“given life forever”

[1]

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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 S34; Sign-list R11; Sign-list S40; Excursus A

[2]

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

Cited for: U+132F9

[3]

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

Cited for: s.v. ꜥnḫ

External data

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

Description
A tie or strap, used with sandals (ankh sign).
Functions
  • Logogram (life)
Readings (unreviewed)
ꜥnḫ
Core status
Core
Catalogue
S034 · S-17-001

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

History

  1. Direct edit

    Changed sign S34

    Common rank
    — → 167

    Edited by Archive maintainers