Road (hieroglyph)

Road- -with-shrubs in hieroglyphs

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'.

Preceded by Was scepter-(tril.) - w3s	road-with-shrubs w3t-(uAt)	Succeeded by Papyrus stem-(tril.) w3dj-(uatch-uadj)
Succeeded by , papyrus stem-(tril.)--harpoon-(bil.) --- w3dj ---- ---- u' ---

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

References

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

• Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)