Egyptian triliteral signs

Triliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are orthographic symbols which represent a specific sequence of three hieroglyphs in the language^[1]

In the written Egyptian language, three types of hieroglyphs existed: those that represented one consonant (called uniliterals, the alphabetic signs), those that represented two, (called biliteral) and those that represented three, (called triliteral).

Common triliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs

Triliteral signs
	iwn	isw	ˁwt	ˁpr	ˁnḫ	'h_'	ˁš3	w3ẖ	w3s
w3ḏ	wˁb		wẖm	wsr		m3ˁ	nbw	nfr	nṯr
ndjr	rwḏ	ẖq3	ẖtp	ḫpr	ḫnt	ḫrp	ḫrw	ḫsf	ḥnm
		sb3	spr		zm3	snb (S29)	snḏ	ḫrp
sšm	stp	sḏm	šps	šmˁ	šms		grg	ḏb3

See also

• Transliteration of ancient Egyptian
• Egyptian uniliteral signs
• Egyptian biliteral signs
• List of hieroglyphs

References

1. Allen, James P. (2000). Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 27.

External links

• Large list of triliteral Egyptian symbols