Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs
belly
| Name | F32 |
|---|---|
| Reads | ẖ |
| Means | animal's belly and tail |
| Taught in | 04 · Your first signs |
Where it comes from
An animal’s belly with teats and tail — the soft underside of a beast. It writes ẖ, the softer front-of-mouth cousin of ḫ, as in German “ich”; and as a word, ẖ,t is “belly, body” — the picture kept its meaning.
How to remember it
The belly is the soft side — and ẖ is the soft rasp, underneath its hard cousin the way a belly is under a back. Soft picture, soft sound; and “son of his body” wears it.
In the wild
urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:SFHXXMQOD5BQXBNVA5LYKTI6QQ:IBUBd0DxaJECXkhYjvjlrTQXSiY
· license: attribution. Name renderings are conventional.
Piece by piece:
- zꜣ≡f — his son, the duck and the viper
- n ẖ,t≡f — of his body: this belly-sign, meaning exactly itself
- Rꜥw-wr — the son’s name, Ra-wer
The formula for a true-born heir: son of his father’s own body. The sign is taught in 101’s chapter 04.