Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs
sedge
| Name | M23 |
|---|---|
| Reads | sw |
| Means | sedge plant; writes nswt, king |
| Taught in | 05 · Names in rings |
Where it comes from
A sedge plant — the marsh reed that stood as the emblem of Upper Egypt. It writes sw, and its great word is nswt, “king (of Upper Egypt)”: He-of-the-Sedge. In everyday grammar the same sw is the little pronoun “he.”
How to remember it
One sedge stem, and the whole south of Egypt stands behind it — the plant that means the king. And when a sentence needs a light “he,” it borrows the royal plant for a commoner’s pronoun.
In the wild
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Piece by piece:
- sw — he: the sedge with its coil, as the pronoun
- m s,t≡f — in his place
The fairy tale’s quiet report — everything where it should be — read whole in 102’s chapter 04. The sign is taught in 101’s chapter 05.