Placenta Aa1
- Sound
- ḫ: kh (as in Scottish loch)
- Meaning
- The sound ḫ.
- Kind
- one-sound sign
- How common
- 14th commonest of our 336 signs: 1.4% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+1340D 𓐍
Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names
Read more about the placenta sign
- Hieroglyphs in the Great Pyramid: the work gangs who wrote Khufu's name Pyramid of Giza hieroglyphs: no carved texts inside the Great Pyramid, but red work-gang marks naming Khufu above the King's Chamber, and what they say.
- Egyptian transliteration explained: what ꜣ, ꜥ, ḥ and ḫ mean Egyptian transliteration explained: what ꜣ, ꜥ, ḥ, ḫ, ẖ, š, q, ṯ and ḏ stand for, how Egyptologists say them, and which hieroglyphs write each one.
- The hieroglyph alphabet: 24 signs and their sounds The hieroglyphic alphabet: the 24 one-consonant signs Egyptologists list, with the picture, the sound and how to spell an English name with them.