Falcon G5
- Sound
- ḥr: hor
- Meaning
- The god Horus.
- Kind
- word sign
- How common
- 115th commonest of our 336 signs: 0.11% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13143 𓅃
Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names
Read more about the falcon sign
- What is a serekh? The royal frame before the cartouche What is a serekh? The palace-front frame topped by the Horus falcon that held the first kings' names, read sign by sign from Narmer to Khufu.
- The five names of a pharaoh The five names of a pharaoh: Horus, Two Ladies, Golden Horus, throne and birth name. The sign that opens each, and Tutankhamun's full set read out.
- The eye of Horus: meaning, myth and the eye of Ra Eye of Horus meaning: the wedjat eye of healing and protection, the myth of the torn eye, how it differs from the eye of Ra, and how Egyptians wrote it.