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Glyph origin

Representing a hill. Old Kingdom examples are fairly triangular. The glyph is conventionally colored black/blue. The phonogrammatic value of q is derived by the rebus principle from the word for a hill, qꜣꜣ.

Symbol

(q)

1. Uniliteral phonogram for q.
2. Determinative in qꜣꜣ (“hill”).