N22
broad tongue of landTransliteration
sḫtwḏbi͗͗dbꜥḥt
phonogramlogogramdeterminativeother
Shape tags
Meanings
Representing a sandy tongue of land. The sand is sometimes represented as speckles across the glyph. This was the Old Kingdom precursor to both N20 () and
N21 ().
phonogramRepresents a sound or phonetic value
1. Triliteral phonogram for wḏb.
logogramRepresents a complete word or concept
1. Logogram (riverbank)
determinativeClarifies the meaning of other signs
1. Determinative in wḏb (“sandbank, shore”).
2. Determinative for land, as in ꜥḥt (“field”).
3. Determinative: lꜥnd
otherHas a specialized or contextual function
1. A tongue of land with a vertical line at the front.