Gardiner U26
A drill with a truncated pyramid-shaped handle, with a round drill-bit with a horizontal line over it
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed- Description
- A drill with a truncated pyramid-shaped handle, with a round drill-bit with a horizontal line over it
- Category
- U
- Shape family
- U-09
- Unicode
- U+1334F · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH U026
- Readings
- wbꜣ
- Functions
- logogram
Readings
- wbꜣ
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- wbꜣ
- 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+1334F
- [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 U26
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A drill with a truncated pyramid-shaped handle, with a round drill-bit with a horizontal line over it.
- Functions
- Logogram (to open)
- Readings (unreviewed)
- wbꜣ
- Core status
- Core
- Catalogue
- U026 · U-09-088
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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