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Your name in hieroglyphs.
Type a name and it is spelled sign by sign, inside the oval cartouche that enclosed royal names on the monuments. It is a phonetic transliteration — how Egyptology writes a modern name in the old signs — and this page says exactly what that means, below the result rather than in small print.
What each sign is.
Every sign used here is one of the “uniliteral” signs of Sir Alan Gardiner’s sign list — the signs that stand for a single sound — given with its Gardiner number and what it depicts.
A transliteration, not a translation.
What it is
The convention used to write foreign names: each sound of the name is matched to the uniliteral sign with the nearest value, with the usual stand-ins for vowels — the vulture for a, the reed for e and i, the quail chick for o and u. L is written with the mouth sign, as Ptolemaic scribes wrote Cleopatra’s name.
What it is not
It is not how an Egyptian scribe would have written your name. The script recorded consonants and added signs for meaning (determinatives) that a sound-by-sound spelling leaves out; nobody in antiquity wrote vowels this way. Two tools can honestly give different spellings for the same name.
Sources: the sign list in A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (3rd ed., Griffith Institute, 1957); sign identities from the Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs chart. Signs drawn in Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, © The Noto Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, self-hosted and subset to the signs used.
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