D31

𓂖

Unicode: U+13096 𓂖
Reading: ḥm-kꜣ
Use: Logogram (mortuary priest)
Group: D – Parts of the human body
Sign list: Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar

Description

Two arms, lowered, with the elbows bent outwards, and the palms of the hands facing each other (D32), with a club used by washermen for beating laundry (U36) written between the arms.

Examples

D31 on an Egyptian monument — Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, 414

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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).