What means
It means “scribe” in Egyptian.
A logogram is a sign for a whole word; sš is the Egyptian transliteration. Few Egyptians could read, so scribes held status as record-keepers. Read as “scribe,” not Thoth’s name.
Hieroglyphic writing appears by the late fourth millennium BCE. Full forms suited monuments and sacred writing; brush-written cursive hieratic and later Demotic handled everyday records. New Kingdom statues (ca. 1300–1080 BCE) show Thoth as a baboon beside a scribe.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
A font gap. As of 2026, Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs lacks Extended-A coverage; a font with that coverage can render it.
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How to type or find
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- scribe · baboon
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
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\13AEDMicrosoft Word
As of 2026, in Microsoft Word, type 13AED and press AltX.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\13AED";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%93%AB%AD
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.