The ancient Egyptian Leopard head hieroglyph,

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sign listed no. F9 is a portrayal of the ''head of a

leopard The leopard (''Panthera pardus'') is one of the five extant species in the genus '' Panthera'', a member of the cat family, Felidae. It occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa, in some parts of Western and Central Asia, Southern Russia ...

''; it is in the Gardiner subset for "parts of mammals". In the

Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the deciphe ...

, the Leopard head hieroglyph is used as a

determinative A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation. They have no direct counterpart in spoken language, though they ma ...

or abbreviation for words relating to 'strength'. In the language it is used for ''pehti''-(pḥty).Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', Leopard's Head, p. 127.

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* . Egyptian hieroglyphs: parts of mammals {{AncientEgypt-stub

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