Road (hieroglyph) explained

The Ancient Egyptian Road-with-shrubs hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N31 for a road, "street", or pathway. It originally was a curving hieroglyph, but became a standardized straight form as well.

The Road hieroglyph is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as an ideogram or determinative in the word w3t-(uat), for 'road'.[1] It is also a phonogram for hr, from the word hrt, also for 'road'.

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Notes and References

  1. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "Road", p. 162.