Egyptian biliteral signs

Biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are symbols which represent a specific sequence of two consonants, also two vowels, or combinational of both, in the language. In the written Egyptian language, three types of hieroglyphs existed: those that represented one value (called uniliterals, the alphabetic signs), those that represented two, (called biliteral) and those that represented three, (called triliteral).

In the following list, aleph is transliterated as ꜣ, ayin as ꜥ and yodh as ı͗.

Common biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs

Biliteral signs
3w	3b	3ḫ	ı͗w	ı͗w	ı͗b	ı͗m	ı͗n / nw
ı͗n	ı͗n	ı͗r	ı͗r	ı͗s	ı͗ṯ	ˁ3	ˁb
ˁq	ˁḏ	w3	wˁ	wp	wn	wr	wḏ
b3	bẖ	p3	pr	pḥ	pḏ / pd	pḏ / pd	m3
mı͗	mw	mn	mn	mr	mr	3b	mḥ
ms	mt	mt / mwt	md	nb	nm	nn	nḥ
ns	nḏ	rw	rs	ḥ3	ḥw	ḥp	ḥm
ḥm	ḥn	ḥr	ḥs	ḥḏ	ḫ3	ḫʾ	ḫw
ḫt	ẖ3	ẖn	ẖn	ẖr	s3	sꜣ	sa
s3	s3	sw	sp	sn	sk	st / sṯ	š3
šw	šm	šn	šs	šd	qs	qd	k3
km	gm	gs	tꜣ	t3	tı͗	tp	tp
tm	ṯ3	mı͗	dı͗	ḏ3	ḏw	ḏr	ḏd

See also

• Transliteration of ancient Egyptian
• Egyptian uniliteral signs
• Egyptian triliteral signs
• List of hieroglyphs

External links

• Large list of biliteral Egyptian symbols