Bread loaf X1 Sound t : tMeaning The sound t. Also the feminine ending. Kind one-sound sign How common The commonest of our 336 signs: 8.3% of all signs written in real texts. Unicode U+133CF 𓏏 Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names Read more about the bread loaf sign The Teaching for Merikare: a king's advice to his son Teaching for Merikare: an Egyptian king tells his son how to rule. Its famous lines in translation, one read in hieroglyphs sign by sign. How to read a stela, line by line How to read an Egyptian stela in hieroglyphics: the rounded top, the scene, the offering formula, the owner's name and family, read from the right end. The offering formula: the sentence on almost every tomb Hotep di nisut, the offering formula: how to spot it on a stela or false door, read it phrase by phrase, and what it asked for the dead. 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. ← Jar stand W11 Tethering rope V13 → All signs