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ggerules
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
This looks fun. What is the context and use of the above glyph list?
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Gardiner's sign list. It's a modern categorization and ordering scheme. "Man and his occupations", "Woman and her occupations", "Anthropomorphic deities", "Parts of the human body", "Mammals", "Parts of Mammals", so on and so forth.
ks2048
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Also the order in Unicode. 1072 chars. (based on Gardiner's list),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_...
andai
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In modern usage it is a shitpost called "Curse of Ra!"
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