Hieroglyphic Symbol for Land
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 Symbols
Hieroglyph | Symbol | Meaning |
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hill country | desert or foreign land |