Meanings
Originally representing the plan of a fortified brick enclosure with buttresslike projections. Very early this signification was forgotten and the glyph was reinterpreted as a wall. A horizontal variant is also found. Compare the Chinese character 囗.
1. Phonogram: inb
1. Logogram for or determinative in jnb (“wall”).
2. Logogram (wall)
3. Logogram: jnb — wall
1. Determinative for walls, as in wmtt (“fortification, bulwark”), snb (“to overleap (a wall)”).
2. Determinative: wꜥll
1. A wall, written vertically, with battlements on the corners, and one in the middle of the long sides.
Words Using This Glyph
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Appears in
A35
phonogramMan and his occupations
A35E
phonogramMan and his occupations
A35F
phonogramMan and his occupations
A35A
Man and his occupations
A35B
Man and his occupations
A35C
phonogramMan and his occupations
A151
Man and his occupations
C36
Anthropomorphic deities
D102
determinativeParts of the human body
O37
phonogramBuildings, parts of buildings, etc.
Related Glyphs
Royal Names Using This Glyph
This glyph appears in 1 royal name.