Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs

𓂡D40 · — · arm gripping a stick

force

Where it comes from

A forearm whose hand grips a stick — the bare forearm armed. Silent: it classifies strength and forceful action — the arm-family’s strongman, next to the empty palm and the loaf-bearing giver.

How to remember it

Force is an arm plus a lever: the same limb that gives and carries, now holding a stick. Three arms, three tempers — open, giving, armed — and this is the armed one.

In the wild

Piece by piece:

• bn — not, the firm leg holding the negation
• krp≡tw≡f — shall it be torn out: this armed arm marking the violence being forbidden

A boundary stela defends itself: no force shall move it — and the force in question is drawn into the verb. The sign is taught in 102’s chapter 05.

Easily confused