Sedge M23

Sound: sw: su
Meaning: King of Upper Egypt. Also 'he, him'.
Kind: two-sound sign
How common: 36th commonest of our 336 signs: 0.56% of all signs written in real texts.
Unicode: U+131D3 𓇓

Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names

Ramesses II

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