The Ancient Egyptian Basket hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. V30 for a semicircular-shaped, ''shallow basket''. It is an Egyptian language biliteral for nb.〔Wilkinson, 1992. ''Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture,'' "Basket", nebet, V30, p. 198-199.〕 The Egyptian uniliteral ''k'', a ''basket-with-handle'', Gardiner no. V31, V31, is constructed from the basket hieroglyph.