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Egyptian
editGlyph origin
editShowing 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.
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Symbol
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- Uniliteral phonogram for j. [since the Middle Kingdom]
- Logogram for -j (dual ending), originally replacing (for superstitious reasons) the device of writing the determinative twice in certain contexts. [since the Pyramid Texts]
- Written in place of two difficult-to-draw signs. [mostly since the 19th Dynasty]
Usage notes
editSome 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.
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References
edit- 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[1], Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 48