Meanings
This determinative was originally two separate signs, one with a seated man putting his hand to his mouth as a determinative for eating, and one where the seated man’s hand did not touch the mouth but was depicted palm-outward as a determinative for speech, intellect, and exclamations. Later the latter sign was subsumed by the former. This and other glyphs depicting men conventionally color the skin red; the hair is typically black, and the clothing white (sometimes with black outlines or details).
During the Heracleopolitan Period, confusion of this sign with the seated man 
A1 () resulted in the use of a variant of 
A2 with a standing man putting his hand to his mouth.
1. Determinative for eating and drinking, as in wnm (“to eat”), zwr (“to drink”), ḥqr (“to be hungry”).
2. Determinative for speech and exclamations, as in j (“O!; to say”), sḏd (“to recount”), gr (“to be silent”).
3. Determinative for thinking and feeling, as in kꜣj (“to plan”), mrj (“to love”).
4. Classifier eating/drinking/speech/ silence/thoughts/feelings
5. Determinative: eat and drink
6. Determinative: speak, think, feel
7. Determinative: j — O (vocative interjection)
1. Man, seated, right knee raised, right arm raised with hand to mouth, left arm hanging beside the body.
Words Using This Glyph
to call to mind; to remember
to call upon; to reckon (math.)
drink
to free oneself (?)
check, inspect
Related Glyphs
Royal Names Using This Glyph
This glyph appears in 3 royal names.