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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Showing two strokes, often diagonal
but sometimes vertical
, to represent duality. Compare the Chinese characters
二 and
⺀. This glyph was conventionally colored black. The phonogrammatic value of
j is derived from its use as the dual ending,
-j.
Symbol
(j)
- Uniliteral phonogram for j.
- Logogram for -j (dual ending), originally replacing (for superstitious reasons) the device of writing the determinative twice in certain contexts.
- Written in place of two difficult-to-draw signs.
Usage notes
Some
transliteration schemes treat this glyph as a phonogrammatic variant of
(
j), while others treat it as a variant of
(
y), and some treat all three as equivalent.
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 536–537
- Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 48
