Hare (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Hare hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no.

E34 (𓃹) is a portrayal of the desert hare or Cape hare, Lepus capensis of Egypt, within the Gardiner signs for mammals.

[1] The biliteral expresses the sound "oon", or "oonen",;[3] it is also an ideogram for the verb "to be", or "to exist",[4] (i.e. "is", "are", "was", etc.).

The famous Pharaoh Unas, (for his Pyramid texts), is named using the hare hieroglyph.

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