The Ancient Egyptian Road-with-shrubs hieroglyph is

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sign listed no. N31 for a ''road'', ''"street"'', or ''pathway''. It originally was a curving hieroglyph, but became a standardized straight form as well. The Road hieroglyph is used in Egyptian

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s as an

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in the word w3t-(uat), for 'road'.Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', ''"Road"'', p. 162. It is also a phonogram for hr, from the word ''hrt'', also for 'road'.

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*Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ) Roads Egyptian hieroglyphs: sky-earth-water {{road-stub

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