Hieroglyphic Symbol for Town

Some Egyptian phrases and expressions were so common that they had their own hieroglyphs.

Sometimes an extra symbol was used to better explain the word these were known as "determinatives".

Below you will see the symbol and its equivelant English meaning. I think of these symbols as being nouns and adverbs.

Hieroglyphic Symbol

Hieroglyph	Symbol	Meaning
	village with crossroads	village, town