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Hieroglyphs are made up of many different types of symbol; some represent a single consonant such as n, others represent two consonants such as nb, others are "triliteral" and represent three consonants such as nfr. There are also many other signs that are not pronounced at all, but clarify the meaning of a word or qualify it in some way.

One familiar triliteral sign is the one we now call "ankh", which is really 'nkh in Egyptian ('+ n+ kh).

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