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Representing a sandy tongue of land. The sand is sometimes represented as speckles across the glyph. This was the Old Kingdom precursor to both
(
𓈄) and
(
𓈅).
(wḏb)
- Triliteral phonogram for wḏb. [Old Kingdom]
- Determinative in wḏb (“sandbank, shore”). [Old Kingdom]
- Determinative for land, as in ꜥḥt (“field”). [Old Kingdom]
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 488