𓇽

𓇽	U+131FD, 𓇽 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N015

Gardiner number:

N15

← 𓇼
[U+131FC]

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

𓇾 →
[U+131FE]

Egyptian edit

Glyph origin edit

Representing a star 𓇼 (

) in a circle, symbolically representing the world of the dead, which was in the oldest times associated with the places where the sun and stars reappeared after having been invisible.

Symbol edit

Logogram for dwꜣt (“the Afterworld”).
Determinative in dwꜣt (“the Afterworld”).

References edit

Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 487
Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN