Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Beginners. Video 6: The Four Hs.

This is the next video that teaches you in clear concise terms how to read the historic language of ancient Egypt. Today’s video focuses on the next four letters of the Egyptian alphabet, the Hs.

Other Egyptian resources:

[echolee]

Recap：

📌 the four Hs
1⃣️4⃣️ the house 𓉔 （“h”）
* start it as if you are drawing a house
* finish the house by drawing the final line inside the first
* pronounced as a soft h
* it has directions

1⃣️5⃣️ the twisted piece of string representing the wick of an oil lamp 𓎛 （“dot-h”）
* draw it as a twisted loop with three twists or openings
* it is drawn tall and thin
* the dot under the ḥ is very important
* pronounced as a hard h

1⃣️6⃣️ the filled-in circle 𓐍 （“round-h”：ḫ ）
* draw four horizontal lines inside the circle
* pronounced as in German “auch”or Scottish “loch” and a little bit throaty

1⃣️7⃣️ the animal belly and tail 𓄡（“flat-h”：ẖ）
* draw a tail of a pointed end
* draw an oval over the pointed end
* draw seven tabs on the edge of the oval
* pronounced similar to ḫ but has a lot more breath

📌 words and simple sentences
（hieroglyphs omitted）

[ericpritchard]

Do you know of, a solar ideograph or pictograph that is Egyptian and Hebrew pictograph, like Qoph in pictograph ? Similar to the passport RFID symbol and the Popes ten commandments recently???

[ericpritchard]

Are not determinatives like an ancient diacritical mark of sorts????

[thomasioslo]

It will take ages and ages to learn all the H:s