Meanings
Representing a woman giving birth, with the depiction of the childβs emerging head and arms seen in π (B3) symbolically replaced by fennec skins from the hieroglyph π (ms), itself used in various words relating to birth and children. In old examples the woman and the skins are found almost or completely separated.
alternative form of π (B3)
Has a specialized or contextual function
alternative form of π (A3)
Has a specialized or contextual function
Classifier birth
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Woman, pregnant, seated, both knees down, right arm forward, angling down towards the knee, left arm hanging beside the body, with three vertical lines coming from the legs.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
ππ ππ΄πππ π΄ππΏπ²π
nn msiΜ―.y sκ£w
(Denn) es gibt keinen, der weise geboren wurde.
π ππ―πΏπ π πππ ±π ͺ ππ΄π ±ππππ₯ π
m twκ£ n κ½w.tw ms.w.PL =f
Sei nicht ΓΌberheblich gegenΓΌber dem, der keine Kinder hat!
πππ πΉ π ππππππ₯ π ππ΄π ±ππππ₯ ππ ±ππ₯
κ½αΈ« κ½riΜ― =f bκ½(κ£) n ms.w.PL sr.w.PL
Dann mΓΆge/wird er ein Vorbild fΓΌr die Kinder der hohen Beamten sein.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) β translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- B4
- Unicode
- U+13053
- Category
- B
- Meanings
- 4
- Transliterations
- 5
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
