Quail chick G43
- Sound
- w: w or u
- Meaning
- The sound w. Also a plural ending.
- Kind
- one-sound sign
- How common
- 19th commonest of our 336 signs: 1.1% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13171 𓅱
Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names
Read more about the quail chick 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.
- 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.
- Which way do you read hieroglyphs? Which way do you read hieroglyphs? Toward the faces: birds, snakes and people look at the start of the line. Rows, columns and the odd exceptions.