Representing a lamp wick of twisted flax. The uppermost loop is often the biggest of the three. These wicks were generally made of a folded strip of fabric twisted tightly and soaked in unused fat. This glyph was conventionally colored green. The phonogrammatic value of ḥ is derived by the rebus principle from ḥꜥt (“wick”).
(ḥ)
- Uniliteral phonogram for ḥ.
- (rare) Determinative in tkꜣw (“candle, taper”).
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