Stair-single (hieroglyph)

Stair-(Single)
in hieroglyphs
The ancient Egyptian Single-Stair hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. O40 is a single staircase in the Gardiner subset for "buildings, parts of buildings, etc." A second full double-staircase is no. O41,[2]

In the Egyptian language, the single stair hieroglyph is used as a determinative.

Preceded by

leg
rd

single-
stair
(determinative)
rd="stairs"
"staircase"
Succeeded by

bread-cone
(di)
rdi

See also

References

  1. ^ Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, p.436B.
  2. ^ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Double stair, p. 186.