Sun N5
- Sound
- rꜥ: ra
- Meaning
- The sun, the sun god Ra. Day.
- Kind
- word sign
- How common
- 21st commonest of our 336 signs: 1.0% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+131F3 𓇳
Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names
- Djedefre
- Khafre
- Menkaure
- Pepi II
- Qakare Ibi
- Meryibre Khety
- Merikare
- Mentuhotep II
- Mentuhotep III
- Senusret I
- Amenemhat II
- Senusret II
- Senusret III
- Amenemhat III
- Khendjer
- Neferhotep I
- Sobekhotep IV
- Sheshi
- Khyan
- Apepi
- Nebiryraw I
- Seqenenre Tao
- Kamose
- Ahmose I
- Amenhotep I
- Thutmose I
- Thutmose II
- Hatshepsut
- Neferure
- Thutmose III
- Amenhotep III
- Akhenaten
- Tutankhamun
- Horemheb
- Seti I
- Ramesses II
- Ramesses III
- Psusennes I
- Siamun
- Shoshenq II
- Osorkon III
- Tefnakht
- Bakenranef
- Cambyses II
- Darius I
- Hakor
- Nectanebo I
- Nectanebo II
Read more about the sun sign
- The sun disc: Ra in names and words Ra in hieroglyphs is the sun disc, a circle with a dot, read rꜥ. How it writes the god, the word day, son of Ra and the throne names of Egypt's kings.
- The Aten in hieroglyphs: the sun disc of Akhenaten The Aten hieroglyph: how the sun disc's name is written, why the god has two cartouches like a king, and the rays ending in hands on Amarna reliefs.
- Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold in London: the hieroglyphs to read at Battersea Ramses exhibition London: what to read at Battersea Power Station until 1 January 2027, from Ramesses II's cartouches to the notes on his cedar coffin.
- What is a hieroglyph? One picture sign of the Egyptian script What is a hieroglyph? A picture sign of ancient Egyptian writing that stands for a sound, a word or a meaning, used from about 3200 BC to AD 394.