Basket-with-handle (hieroglyph)

Wicker–Basket–
with–Handle
in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian (Wicker) Basket with Handle hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. V31 for a 'basket, iconographically portrayed as wicker, with handle'. The iconographic portrayals show either crossed lines, or blocks in various colors.

The basket-with-handle hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter k.[1]

The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters

The following two tables show the Egyptian uniliteral signs. (24 letters, but multiple use hieroglyphs)

a
i
y
'
(w,u)
B
P
F
M
N
R
H1
H2
Kh1
Kh2
S
(Sh)=Š
Q/K2
K
G
T
ChTj
D
Dj
L/(R)
(special)
(Ptolemaic,
etc.)
-- -- -- -- --
a i
(ee)
y
ii
'
ah, (aïn)
w, (u)
(oo)
B
P F M N R H1
H2 (Kh)1 (Kh)2 S Sh
(Sh)
K
emphatic
K G T Tj
Ch
Tsh
D Dj
(additionally 3
for vert/horiz)
-- -- -- -- --
M
(horiz)
M2-Plinth
N
(vert)
(see:
N (red crown))
S
(vert)
S (folded
cloth)
T
(no. 2)
T2-Pestle
M
(3rd-
-vert)
M3-Baker's tool
(additionally 2
for equivalents)
-- -- -- -- --

is—
y2-Two strokes

is—
letter w, u
(see w2-Coil)

See also

References

  1. ^ Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, uniliteral: U13, p. 42-43.