O49

village

O·Buildings, parts of buildings, etc.·U+13296·both

Transliteration

njwtnwtkmt⁴wꜣstspꜣt

phonogramlogogramdeterminativeother

Shape tags

plan

Variants (1)

O49A

Meanings

Representing a round settlement, walled and divided by crossroads. Similar settlements are archaeologically attested in Upper Egypt since the earliest periods of urbanization, and this hieroglyph is also attested very early. In the Old and Middle Kingdoms the streets are occasionally found in a different orientation , horizontal and vertical instead of diagonal; this is even more frequent in inscriptions of the Heracleopolitan Period and 11th dynasty. Compare the Chinese character 囗.

phonogramRepresents a sound or phonetic value

1. Phonogram: niwt

logogramRepresents a complete word or concept

1. Logogram for nwt (“town, city”).

2. Logogram (city, village)

3. Logogram: njwt — city

determinativeClarifies the meaning of other signs

1. Determinative in names of settlements and inhabited places, as in kmt (“Egypt”), wꜣst (“thebes”), spꜣt (“estate, farm”).

2. Determinative: inhabited area

otherHas a specialized or contextual function

1. A plan of a crossroads in a village.