What 𓃞 means
It depicts a ram; the inscription decides its job. As a determinative—a silent classifier—it can steer a nearby word toward sheep or ram terms. The image alone cannot identify a god.
A catalogue of sign forms calls E11 an Old Kingdom form of E10 (𓃝); the Old Kingdom was an early Egyptian period. It shows E11 in a Dynasty XII tomb at Elephantine and E10 on a Dynasty VI mastaba, a flat-roofed tomb. In ancient Egypt, rams were linked with Khnum, a god, and Mendes’s sacred ram.
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Who writes 𓃞
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𓃞 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𓃞
- Also called
- E11 · ram sign
- Search it as
- ram · sheep hieroglyph · Khnum · Mendes
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𓃞\130DECodes and encoding1 code points
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