T12

𓌗

Unicode: U+13317 𓌗
Reading: rwḏ
Use: Phonemogram
Group: T – Warfare, hunting, butchery
Sign list: Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar

Description

A bowstring, coiled up, with a loop at the front end, and the back end angled downwards, with a loop on it.

Examples

T12 on an Egyptian monument — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 50.85, photo: The Met, Open Access (CC0)

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Sign drawings: NewGardiner font by Mark-Jan Nederhof (SIL Open Font License 1.1); signs missing there: © Serge Rosmorduc (from JSesh; LGPL / CeCILL, see notice). Transliteration font: Charis SIL (SIL Open Font License 1.1). Photos: Alexander Sulimov, unless stated otherwise. Descriptions: Unicode Egyptian hieroglyph data (Unikemet).