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boatTransliteration
Shape tags
Meanings
Representing a boat on water, typically with seat and steering oar. These boats occur with great frequency in archaic graffiti, pottery, and paintings. In Old Kingdom examples the glyph is usually written without the oar, , and a variant with a high prow and stern, , is preferred in Old Kingdom titles.
1. Phonogram: ꜥḥꜥw
1. Logogram for jmw (“boat”).
2. Logogram for dpt (“ship”) in dpt-nṯr.
3. Logogram for ꜥḥꜥ (“boat”) in jmj-r ꜥḥꜥw.
4. Logogram for qꜣqꜣw (“kind of riverboat”).
5. Logogram: dpt — ship
6. Logogram: jmw — ship
7. Logogram: ꜣḥꜥ — ship
8. Logogram: qꜣqꜣw — ship
1. Determinative for boats and ships, as in dpt (“ship”) or ḥꜥw (“fleet”).
2. Determinative for verbs involving navigation and travel by water, as in nꜥj (“to travel by boat”) or ḫdj (“to go downstream”).
3. Classifier movement
4. Determinative: Boat, ship, travel by water
1. A boat/ship, resembling a crescent moon, on top of a rectangle representing water, with a carrying chair (
Q2) inside the boat/ship, with an oar/rudder at the back.
Words Using This Glyph
make an expedition, expedition
boat (with mast)
ship, boat
go ashore, run aground (of ship)
moor, land, dock
