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Writing systems Β· Ancient Egypt

Write Your Name in Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Enter a modern name and the instrument will render it with the uploaded hieroglyphic key, using image-derived signs from the key itself and a copyable Unicode equivalent.

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Interactive instrument

Your name

Type a name below. The display updates as you type; pressing "Render & record" also stores the submitted name and transliteration in the Marina database.

This is a decorative transliteration, not a claim that an ancient Egyptian scribe would have written a modern name this way. The uploaded key simplifies several distinct Egyptian consonants into familiar Latin letters and supplies no separate signs for some modern vowels.

Transliteration notes

How the converter reads modern spelling

  • A β†’ vulture sign
  • E / I / Y β†’ reed sign
  • B β†’ foot
  • P β†’ stool
  • F / V / PH β†’ horned viper
  • N β†’ water ripple
  • R β†’ mouth
  • H β†’ enclosure
  • KH β†’ KH sign
  • L β†’ lion
  • Z β†’ bolt
  • CH / SH β†’ CH sign from the key
  • Q β†’ hill
  • K / hard C β†’ basket
  • T β†’ loaf
  • TH β†’ rope
  • D β†’ hand
  • W / U / O β†’ quail chick
  • M β†’ owl
  • S / soft C β†’ folded cloth
  • G β†’ jar stand
  • DJ / J β†’ cobra
  • X β†’ K + S

The supplied key gives two different signs labelled "A" and two labelled "H". The converter uses the first-listed A and H consistently so the same name always produces the same result. The alternatives remain visible here:

Alternate A arm signAlternate A
arm sign
Alternate H wick signAlternate H
twisted-wick sign
Related instrument: compare this pictorial writing system with the much later consonantal alphabet in Write Your Name in Phoenician.

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