Meanings
Representing a road lined with shrubs. The depicted road tended to be curved in the early phases of the Old Kingdom, and such curved variants occasionally appeared even much later, when the most common form had become straight. The phonogrammatic value of ḥr is derived by the rebus principle from its use in ḥrt (“road”).
1. Biliteral phonogram for ḥr.
1. Logogram for wꜣt (“road”).
2. Logogram for wꜣj (“to fall into (a condition)”).
3. Logogram (road)
4. Logogram: jnj-ḥrt — Onuris
5. Logogram: ḥrw — besides
6. Logogram: wꜣ — fall
7. Logogram: ḥr — horus
8. Logogram: wꜣt — road
1. Determinative for words relating to roads, travel, position, and distance.
2. Determinative: road, travel, position
1. A road with two shrubs at the top, and one at the bottom.
Words Using This Glyph
eye
fly up, move up
journey, beginning (of region)
journey, beginning (of region)
be far from
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Royal Names Using This Glyph
This glyph appears in 1 royal name.