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| List of hieroglyphs |
| Glyph |
Picture |
Pronunciation |
Meanings |
Letters descended from it |
Notes |
|
|
an Egyptian vulture |
a
a glottal stop |
|
|
a reed |
i/a |
|
|
a pair of reeds |
y |
|
|
pair of strokes
or river (?) |
|
|
an arm |
a |
|
Yodh |
|
or
|
a quail chick or its
hieratic abbreviation |
w/u |
|
|
a lower leg |
b |
|
|
a reed mat or stool |
p |
|
|
the Cerastes, a horned viper |
f |
|
Latin F |
|
|
an owl |
m |
|
|
a ripple of water |
n |
|
|
a mouth |
r
also the foreign l |
|
|
see Proof of existence |
|
|
a reed shelter |
h |
|
|
a twisted wick |
h |
|
|
a placenta or
a ball of string (?) |
kh
a guttural sound |
|
|
an animal belly with tail |
kh
a softer sound |
|
|
a folded cloth |
s |
|
|
a door bolt |
|
|
a garden pool |
sh |
|
|
slope of a hill |
q
(an emphatic k) |
|
|
a basket with a handle |
k |
|
|
a jar stand |
g |
|
|
a bun |
t |
|
|
a tethering rope |
ch
as in English church |
|
|
a hand |
d |
|
|
a cobra |
j
as in English judge |
|
|
an ox |
|
|
Aleph  , Cyrillic A, and Latin A |
|
|
a camel |
|
|
gamma (Γ), Latin C and G, and Cyrillic Г |
|
|
a door |
|
|
delta (Δ), Latin D and the Cyrillic Д |
|
|
thread |
|
|
jubilation, celebration |
|
|
courtyard |
|
|
Good |
|
|
water |
|
|
Roman M and the Cyrillic Em (М, м) |
|
|
a snake |
|
|
Greek nu (Ν), Etruscan  , Latin N, and Cyrillic Н |
|
|
a child |
|
|
dancing |
[edit] See also
