Egyptian triliteral signs
Hieroglyphs representing three consonants
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The following is a list of hieroglyphs used as phonographs with triconsonantal phonetic values. These forms and their values are from Allen (2014), unless otherwise indicated.[A]
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Usage
Triliteral signs could be used by themselves to indicate the consonant sequence they represent, or they could more often be written along with phonetic complements, that is, they could appear with uniliteral signs that represent part of their value. Some examples of triliterals with phonetic complementation appear in the table below.
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