Representing a trunk or branch. Old Kingdom examples show a tree trunk with all of its knots and branches lopped off but the one at the very end. Later New Kingdom examples instead depict a branch with twigs. The phonogrammatic value derives by the rebus principle from the glyphâs use as a logogram for áž«t(âwoodâ).
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