Raised arms D28
- Sound
- kꜣ: ka
- Meaning
- The ka, a person's life force.
- Kind
- two-sound sign
- How common
- 73rd commonest of our 336 signs: 0.20% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13093 𓂓
Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names
Read more about the raised arms sign
- Ka and ba: the Egyptian soul in two signs Ka and ba, the Egyptian soul: the raised arms of the ka (life force) and the human-headed bird of the ba (personality). How each was written and seen.
- The Teaching for Merikare: a king's advice to his son Teaching for Merikare: an Egyptian king tells his son how to rule. Its famous lines in translation, one read in hieroglyphs sign by sign.