| Cobra Cobra-at-Rest in hieroglyphs |
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The Ancient Egyptian Cobra hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. I10 for the cobra-at-rest. The Cobra-enraged in defensive posture, is the famous pharaonic Uraeus, (portrayed with Gardiner's nos. I12, I13, G16, and other Gardiner unlisted varieties).
The cobra-at-rest hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter dj,[1] (not an Egyptian biliteral).
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| Forever Eternal-(Eternity) in hieroglyphs |
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A variety of hieroglyph composition blocks use the space beneath the cobra-at-rest hieroglyph. In relief scene iconography, the pharaoh is often: "given life, power, dominion, ra-like, forever", in Egyptian: di ankh, usr, djed, ra-ma, djet.
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 |
Ch—Tj |
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 4 for vert/horiz) |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| M (horiz) M2-Plinth |
N (vert) (see: N (red crown)) |
S (vert) S (folded cloth) |
M (3rd-M -2nd-vert) M3-Baker's tool |
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| (additionally 3 for equivalents) |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
is— y2-Two strokes |
is— letter w, u (see w2-Coil) |
T (no. 2) T2-Pestle |