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The Egyptian hieroglyph Rising Sun (Gardiner N28) is used to represent "coronation", and related meanings (festivals, parades, rejoicing, etc.). Its phonetic value is ''ḫꜥ'' ("kha").
It is used in the
Horus name
The Horus name is the oldest known and used crest of ancient Egyptian rulers. It belongs to the " great five names" of an Egyptian pharaoh. However, modern Egyptologists and linguists are starting to prefer the more neutral term: the "serekh na ...
of pharaoh Khasekhemwy
Khasekhemwy (ca. 2690 BC; ', also rendered ''Kha-sekhemui'') was the last Pharaoh of the Second Dynasty of Egypt. Little is known about him, other than that he led several significant military campaigns and built the mudbrick fort known as Shu ...
(''Ḫꜥj-sḫm.wj'') of the Second Dynasty
The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty II, c. 2890 – c. 2686 BC) is the latter of the two dynasties of the Egyptian Archaic Period, when the seat of government was centred at Thinis. It is most known for its last ruler, K ...
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Language usage of "Rising sun"-(Khā)
See also
* Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water *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 ...
*Sun (hieroglyph)
The ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the ''sun-disc'';Collier and Manley, 1998, ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'', C1, sun-disc, p. 136. it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.
The sun ...
*Egyptian biliteral signs
The biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are hieroglyphs which represent a specific sequence of two consonants. The listed hieroglyphs focus on the consonant combinations rather than the meanings behind the hieroglyphs.
See also
*Transliteration of an ...
References
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