Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs
wick
| Name | V28 |
|---|---|
| Reads | ḥ |
| Means | twisted wick |
| Taught in | 04 · Your first signs |
Where it comes from
A wick of twisted flax — the lamp-cord, plaited in a spiral. It writes ḥ, the emphatic h pushed from deeper in the throat than plain h. The twist in the picture matches the extra effort in the sound.
How to remember it
The wick is h with a twist — literally: the plain breath wound tighter, ready to burn. Where h is an open door, ḥ is a braided cord.
In the wild
urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:LA52ETBPSBG7NAVV4L7HMTI26A:IBUBd92d0kl2YENfkaxOX7knJ9c
· license: attribution. The captions' spellings are
compressed, as wall labels often are.
Piece by piece:
- ḥwi̯ — beating: this wick opening the verb, the striking man doing the work
- mḥꜥ — the flax
A linen workshop on a tomb wall — and the wick-sign starts the beating of the very fiber wicks are twisted from. The sign is taught in 101’s chapter 04.