What 𓃲 means
It marks a word as “oryx.” Egyptian writing places the sign after the sound-signs in mꜣ-ḥḏ, where it narrows the word’s meaning without being read aloud. It does not mean “animal” in every context.
Old Kingdom tomb scenes at Giza show labels for a fed oryx using mꜣ-ḥḏ, a word attested into the Middle Kingdom. The related sign 𓃳 (E028A) writes the name of the Oryx nome—the 16th administrative region of Upper Egypt.
Technical and archival; in a modern message, it points to Egyptian writing or decoration rather than a standard reaction.
E28 is an oryx sign; ram-head hieroglyphs 𓄅 / 𓄆 (F7/F8) are different signs.
Who writes 𓃲
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Don't confuse it with
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𓄅 / 𓄆 These are ram-head signs F7/F8; 𓃲 is the full-bodied oryx sign E28.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𓃲 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𓃲
- Also called
- E28 · Gardiner E28 · oryx hieroglyph
- Search it as
- oryx · antelope · mꜣḥḏ · mahedj · classifier · determinative · gardiner
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𓃲\130F2Codes and encoding1 code points
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