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𓋴 U+132F4, 𓋴
EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S029
Gardiner number:S29
← 𓋳
[U+132F3] 		Egyptian Hieroglyphs 𓋵 →
[U+132F5]

Egyptian

Glyph origin

A picture of a folded cloth. This glyph was conventionally colored red. The original word behind the phonogrammatic value s is unknown.

Symbol
(s)
  1. Uniliteral phonogram for s; after Old Egyptian, as s and z merged, it could also be a phonogram for old z.
  2. Logogram for s (“vessel of gold”).
  3. Abbreviation for snb (“health”) in the formula ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb (“life, prosperity, health”).

Usage notes

Homophonic to

(𓊃) after Old Egyptian, when the two sounds merged.

References
  • Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 507
  • Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language‎, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 48
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