Meanings
Representing a seated woman wrapped tightly in a dress or cloak and wearing a long wig, essentially portraying a woman in a generic pose to draw little attention to any particular action or quality other than womanhood. Compare the Chinese character ε₯³. Old Kingdom inscriptions often show this hieroglyph as slightly smaller than the seated man, A1 (π), but in later times they are of equal size. Conventionally, the woman's skin is colored yellow, distinguishing her from men (who have red skin). The hair is conventionally black; the robe is conventionally either white or (starting in the Third Intermediate Period) sometimes dark red.
Logogram for .j (first-person suffix pronoun) when the speaker is female.
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative for the relations, occupations, and names of women and words associated with the female sphere in general.
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Part of the combination A1*B1:Z2, a determinative for groups of people, as in rmαΉ―w (βpeopleβ).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Classifier female
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Woman, seated, both knees up, with covered legs and arms, with long hair.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: =j β I (female)
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: Female
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
π πΈπ΄π
αΈ₯m(.t) mriΜ―=s
Dienerin Meries
ππ ππΈπ
zαΈ«n(.t)-κ£αΈ« mr.t-nκ½.t
Sucherin des Geistes Merit-Neith
π³π π ππ
mκ£κ£(.t)-αΈ₯r.w κ₯-stαΊ wdp.w(t)
Die den Horus schaut, Arm des Seth, Udeput
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) β translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- B1
- Unicode
- U+13050
- Category
- B
- Meanings
- 7
- Transliterations
- 4
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3