Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs
stroke
| Name | Z1 |
|---|---|
| Reads | — |
| Means | the word-sign stroke — 'this sign means what it shows' |
| Taught in | 03 · How signs mean |
Where it comes from
Not a picture at all — a single upright stroke, the script’s own punctuation. Set under or beside a sign it says: read this one as the thing it shows. A mouth with the stroke is a mouth, not the sound r; a house with the stroke is a house.
How to remember it
The stroke is the script pointing at its own picture: “yes, really, THE THING.” One small mark, and a sound-sign turns back into the object it always drew.
In the wild
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· license: attribution.
Piece by piece:
- rʾ — the mouth-sign, and under it this stroke: read it as the word “mouth/spell” itself, not as the sound r
- n mw — of water
One stroke turns a letter back into a word. The marker is taught in 101’s chapter 03.