Representing a highly stylized papyrus stem with umbel. Archaic forms of the glyph show a sheath of tall projecting leaves at the base of the stem as well as narrow outer leaves at the base of the umbel; occasionally this persisted even into the Old Kingdom and later. This glyph was conventionally colored green. The phonogrammatic value derives by the rebus principle from its use as a logogram for wꜣḏ (“papyrus stem”).
(wꜣḏ, wḏ)
- Triliteral phonogram for wꜣḏ, as in wꜣḏ (“to be(come) green”).
- Biliteral phonogram for wḏ by conflation with (𓎗), as in swḏ (“to bequeath”). [Since the Middle Kingdom]
- Logogram for or determinative in wꜣḏ (“papyrus stem”).
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 480
- Henry George Fischer (1988) Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN
- Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN
