Talk:Hand (hieroglyph)

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Purpose of section: "The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters"

I don't see the purpose of the section titled, "The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters." Shouldn't this article be mainly about the "hand" hieroglyph? The hieroglyph table is too general to be added to a specific hieroglyph page. Removal? Testtaker12 (talk) 00:29, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

a twisty passage

The ancient Egyptian Hand (hieroglyph) is an alphabetic hieroglyph with the meaning of "d"; it is also used in the word for 'hand', and actions that are performed, i.e. by the 'way of one's hands', or actions. (Used as a determinative.)

The latter half of this is bewildering. Here is what I think it might mean:

In ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the hand symbol represented the phoneme /d/, and was also used as a determinative for actions performed as if with the hands.

Is this reasonably accurate? —Tamfang (talk) 06:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]