The Arm, palm down or cubit hieroglyph (
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D42) has the phonetic value ''mḥ''. A variant with the upper arm "slanted" is D41.
It represents the Egyptian
cubit
The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was primarily associated with the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Israelites. The term ''cubit'' is found in the Bible regarding ...
(about 20 inches).
See also
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Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Body
*
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sig ...
*
Ancient Egyptian units of measurement#Length
References
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Budge, (1920), 1978. ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,'' p. 316a.
Egyptian hieroglyphs: parts of the human body