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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The ancient
Egyptian child hieroglyph is part of the Egyptian Gardiner's Sign List
hieroglyphs for the beginning core subgroup of Man and his Occupations.
It relates to the child, and childhood, and has a version for the
Pharaoh, as a child.The hieroglyphic equivalent of the child hieroglyph
is nn as a phonogram. It is the Ancient Egyptian language equivalent of
hrd-(meaning "child"). The hieroglyph is also a determinative in words
relating to childhood; (also an abbreviation for "child").The child
hieroglyph is used twice in the 196 BC Ptolemy V Rosetta Stone. It is
used in the introduction, line 1, (Nubayrah Stele, line N1), with the
youth reference:
