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Representing a woman giving birth, with the depiction of the child’s emerging head and arms seen in
𓁒 (
) symbolically replaced by
fennec skins from the hieroglyph
𓄟 (
), itself used in various words relating to birth and children. In old examples the woman and the skins are found almost or completely separated.
- Alternative form of 𓁒 ().
- (rare, in a single hieratic manuscript) Alternative form of 𓀂 ().
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 448
- Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN
