Eye D4
- Sound
- ir: ir
- Meaning
- Eye. To do, to make.
- Kind
- two-sound sign
- How common
- 32nd commonest of our 336 signs: 0.71% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13079 𓁹
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