Representing a trunk or branch. Old Kingdom examples show a tree trunk with all of its knots and branches lopped off but the one at the very end. Later New Kingdom examples instead depict a branch with twigs. The phonogrammatic value derives by the rebus principle from the glyph’s use as a logogram for ḫt (“wood”).
(ḫt)
- Biliteral phonogram for ḫt.
- Logogram for ḫt (“wood”).
- Determinative in words for types of wood, things made of wood, or the woody parts of plants.
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 479
- Henry George Fischer (1988) Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN
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