Seated man A1
- Meaning
- Determinative for men. Also 'I, me'.
- Kind
- determinative (a silent sign that shows what a word is about)
- How common
- 15th commonest of our 336 signs: 1.3% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13000 𓀀
Read more about the seated man sign
- How many hieroglyphs are there? How many hieroglyphs are there? About 750 to 900 in classical Egyptian, over 5,000 by Roman times. Why the count moves, and how few you need to read.
- Determinatives: the silent signs that tell you what a word means Hieroglyph determinatives are silent signs that classify a word. Learn to spot them in real Egyptian spellings and see how they work.