Forearm D36

Sound: ꜥ: a (a deep sound from the throat)
Meaning: The sound ꜥ (ayin).
Kind: one-sound sign
How common: 11th commonest of our 336 signs: 2.0% of all signs written in real texts.
Unicode: U+1309D 𓂝

Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names

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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.
How to write your name in hieroglyphs Write your name in hieroglyphics by sound: which alphabet sign stands for each letter, a worked example, and why it is a modern convention.
Did the Egyptians write vowels? Did hieroglyphs have vowels? No: they wrote consonants only. Why Egyptologists say nefer, and how Coptic and Babylonian tablets keep the real vowels.
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.

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