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Glyph origin
Representing a man’s face with a squared-off beard, one of the few hieroglyphs depicted in frontal view. Compare the Chinese character,. The elements of the face tend to be somewhat flattened and exaggerated. Although the face is male, the skin is traditionally colored yellow, as if female, rather than the expected red; compare, which is also often yellow. The hair is conventionally black; the beard is typically also black, but sometimes it is yellow as if it has been reinterpreted as the neck. The phonogrammatic value of is derived by the rebus principle from the glyph’s use as the logogram for.