𓈅

𓈅	U+13205, 𓈅 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH N021

Gardiner number:

N21

← 𓈄
[U+13204]

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

𓈆 →
[U+13206]

Egyptian

Glyph origin

Representing a tongue of land or perhaps a standard cultivated parcel (surveyed parcels for farming were usually shaped like elongated trapezoids, with the long sides parallel to the Nile). Compare the Chinese character 田. This glyph originally developed as a variant of the earlier

(𓈆). In the 8th Dynasty

(𓈘) came to be used instead as the determinative for cultivated land, and in the 11th Dynasty this developed into

(𓈇), but in the 18th Dynasty

became more widely used and took their place as the ordinary determinative for this purpose.

Symbol

Logogram for jdb (“riverbank”).
Determinative for land, particularly cultivated land near water, as in jdb (“riverbank”), tꜣ (“land, ground”), dmj (“town, harbor”).

References

Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 488
Henry George Fischer (1988) Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 35
Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN