Mouth D21

Sound: r: r
Meaning: The sound r. Also means 'mouth'.
Kind: one-sound sign
How common: 3rd commonest of our 336 signs: 4.7% of all signs written in real texts.
Unicode: U+1308B 𓂋

Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names

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