𓈅

Glyph origin
Representing a tongue of land or perhaps a standard cultivated parcel (surveyed parcels for farming were usually shaped like elongated trapezoids, with the long sides parallel to the Nile). Compare the Chinese character. This glyph originally developed as a variant of the earlier. In the 8th Dynasty   came to be used instead as the determinative for cultivated land, and in the 11th Dynasty this developed into  , but in the 18th Dynasty   became more widely used and took their place as the ordinary determinative for this purpose.