Hieroglyphs Addenda

Signs β€” one page for every sign

Every sign the courses teach has one page here: its permanent home for in-depth study. Each page carries the sign’s keyword β€” one handle-word, unique across the school, the word the drills will always use for it β€” then two stories, kept honestly apart: where it comes from, the picture the scholarship actually supports,1 and how to remember it, a memory hook we invented and say so. Below those: the sign’s lookalikes, and one real corpus line it lives in.

One thing before the table: a memory image you build yourself sticks better than any image handed to you.2 Use our hooks as scaffolding β€” the moment your own picture forms, throw ours away.

SignNameKeyMeansTaught in
π“…“ G17 owl owl 101 Β· ch. 00
π“ˆ– N35 ripple ripple of water 101 Β· ch. 00
π“‚‹ D21 mouth mouth 101 Β· ch. 00
𓇋 M17 reed flowering reed 101 Β· ch. 01
π“ŽΌ W11 stand jar stand 101 Β· ch. 02
𓉐 O1 house house (ground-plan) 101 Β· ch. 03
𓏀 Z1 stroke the word-sign stroke β€” 'this sign means what it shows' 101 Β· ch. 03
π“‚» D54 walking walking legs β€” classifier for motion words 101 Β· ch. 03
π“„Ώ G1 vulture Egyptian vulture 101 Β· ch. 04
𓏭 Z4 pair two strokes 101 Β· ch. 04
𓂝 D36 forearm forearm 101 Β· ch. 04
π“…± G43 chick quail chick 101 Β· ch. 04
𓏲 Z7 coil coil (cursive quail chick) 101 Β· ch. 04
𓃀 D58 leg lower leg and foot 101 Β· ch. 04
π“Šͺ Q3 stool reed mat or stool 101 Β· ch. 04
𓆑 I9 viper horned viper 101 Β· ch. 04
𓉔 O4 shelter reed shelter 101 Β· ch. 04
π“Ž› V28 wick twisted wick 101 Β· ch. 04
𓐍 AA1 sieve sieve? placenta? 101 Β· ch. 04
π“„‘ F32 belly animal's belly and tail 101 Β· ch. 04
π“Šƒ O34 bolt door bolt 101 Β· ch. 04
π“‹΄ S29 cloth folded cloth 101 Β· ch. 04
π“ˆ™ N37 pool pool of water 101 Β· ch. 04
π“ˆŽ N29 slope slope of a hill 101 Β· ch. 04
π“Ž‘ V31 basket basket with handle 101 Β· ch. 04
𓏏 X1 loaf loaf of bread 101 Β· ch. 04
𓍿 V13 tether tethering rope 101 Β· ch. 04
π“‚§ D46 hand hand 101 Β· ch. 04
𓆓 I10 cobra cobra at rest 101 Β· ch. 04
𓍷 V10 cartouche the cartouche β€” rope ring around royal names 101 Β· ch. 05
𓇳 N5 sun sun disc; the god Ra 101 Β· ch. 05
𓇓 M23 sedge sedge plant; writes nswt, king 101 Β· ch. 05
π“Š΅ R4 offering loaf on a reed mat β€” offering, peace 101 Β· ch. 06
𓏙 X8 given loaf conical loaf held out β€” give 101 Β· ch. 06
π“‚“ D28 ka two raised arms β€” the ka, the life-force 101 Β· ch. 06
𓏠 Y5 board game board with pieces β€” mn 101 Β· ch. 07
π“ŽŸ V30 lord wicker basket β€” lord; every 101 Β· ch. 07
𓁷 D2 face human face β€” face; upon 101 Β· ch. 07
π“„Ÿ F31 skins three fox skins tied β€” born of 101 Β· ch. 08
π“…­ G39 duck pintail duck β€” son 101 Β· ch. 08
π“Œ W24 pot round pot β€” nw 101 Β· ch. 08
π“€€ A1 person seated man β€” classifier: man, I 101 Β· ch. 09
𓁐 B1 woman seated woman β€” classifier: woman 101 Β· ch. 09
𓀁 A2 hand to mouth man with hand to mouth β€” classifier: eat, speak, think 101 Β· ch. 09
π“₯ Z2 plural three strokes β€” classifier: plural 101 Β· ch. 09
𓏛 Y1 idea papyrus roll tied shut β€” classifier: abstract idea 101 Β· ch. 09
π“…ͺ G37 smallness sparrow β€” classifier: small, bad, weak 101 Β· ch. 09
π“‹Ή S34 life sandal strap? knot? β€” the ankh: life 101 Β· ch. 10
π“„€ F35 beautiful heart and windpipe? β€” nefer: good, beautiful 101 Β· ch. 10
𓆣 L1 scarab scarab beetle β€” kheper: become, transform 101 Β· ch. 10
π“ŠΉ R8 flag temple flag on a pole β€” netjer: god 101 Β· ch. 10
𓃭 E23 lion recumbent lion β€” rw 101 Β· ch. 11
𓍯 V4 lasso lasso β€” wa 101 Β· ch. 11
𓇯 N1 sky sky 102 Β· ch. 00
𓇿 N17 land flat strip of land 102 Β· ch. 00
𓏇 W19 likeness milk jug in a carrying net 102 Β· ch. 01
π“ˆ— N35A water three ripples of water 102 Β· ch. 01
𓍛 U36 majesty fuller's club 102 Β· ch. 02
π“Ž’ V31A mirror basket basket with handle (left) 102 Β· ch. 02
π“…† G7 watcher falcon on the standard 102 Β· ch. 02
𓁹 D4 eye eye 102 Β· ch. 03
π“‚ž D37 giving arm arm handing a loaf 102 Β· ch. 03
𓃹 E34 hare desert hare 102 Β· ch. 03
π“‚œ D35 refusal arms spread in refusal 102 Β· ch. 04
π“„£ F34 heart heart 102 Β· ch. 04
π“Š¨ Q1 throne seat, throne 102 Β· ch. 04
𓏱 Z6 death's stand-in substitute stroke 102 Β· ch. 04
π“€œ A24 effort man striking, two-handed 102 Β· ch. 05
π“‚‘ D40 force arm gripping a stick 102 Β· ch. 05
π“ˆ’ N33 sand grain of sand 102 Β· ch. 05
π“Ž AA2 sickness pustule (?) 102 Β· ch. 05
𓉻 O29 great wooden column, laid flat 102 Β· ch. 06
π“…¨ G36 elder swallow 102 Β· ch. 06
𓍑 U28 fire-drill fire-drill 102 Β· ch. 06
  1. Sign identifications per Gardiner’s Sign List (Egyptian Grammar, 3rd ed., 1957); where it hedges, our pages hedge.Β 

  2. The generation effect: self-produced material is retained better than supplied material β€” Slamecka & Graf, β€œThe generation effect: delineation of a phenomenon,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 4 (1978).Β