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Hieroglyphics (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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I'm carving this into the pyramids where it doesn't belong, to throw archeologists for a loop

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Cool! Putting these in a search engine one by one, I get

The first three are used to describe “beautiful,” “perfect,” or “good:” 𓄤𓆑𓂋 1
𓅱 = quail chick, used also for the plural word ending (I'm going with this, because the other meaning is "Field, district, region")
𓏭 = plural, majority, collective concept (e.g. meat, jwf), duality. Can be used as a replacement for signs perceived to be dangerous to actually write. (I can't really make sense of this one, maybe it's just some sort of stress)
𓄖 = Hindquarters of leopard or lion <= aha!
𓎡 this apparently only has a phonetic value of 'k'???

I learned a little about hieroglyphics today. Just enough to realize they are both complex & well researched.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Late response, but Wiktionary puts cat's ass and plural quails together to mean buttocks (I wish I'd found this before manually looking up each symbol!):

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%E1%B8%A5wj