Bee (hieroglyph) explained

The Egyptian hieroglyph representing a honey bee (Gardiner L2). It is used as an ideogram for "bee" (bjt),^[1] but most frequently as part of the title of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, rendered nswt-bjtj (interpreted as "He of the Sedge and the Bee").

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#L. Invertebrates and lesser animals
• Egyptian biliteral signs
• Nswt-bjtj
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

References

• Betrò, 1995. , Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover,)
• Budge, (1920), 1978. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes, 1314 pp. and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover,)

Notes and References

1. Betrò, 1995. , p. 117.