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The ancient Egyptian Red Crown, the Deshret crown, is one of the oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs. As an iconographic element, it is used on the famous Narmer Palette of Pharaoh Narmer as the ''"Red Crown of the Delta"'', the Delta being Lower Egypt. Later use of the Red Crown came to be as the vertical letter n, a phonogram, versus the horizontal letter 'n', Gardiner no. 35, ==Language usage of vertical "n"-the Red Crown== The first usage of the Red Crown was in iconography as the symbol for Lower Egypt with the Nile Delta. Later it came to be used in the Egyptian language – as an alphabetic uniliteral, vertical form for letter "n" as a phoneme or preposition. It became functional in running hieroglyphic texts, where either the horizontal or vertical form preposition satisfied space requirements. The Red Crown is also used as a determinative, most notably in the word for deshret. It is also used in other words or names of gods. One older use of the red crown hieroglyph is to make the word: 'in'!, (formerly ''an''-(a-with dot)-(the "vertical feather" hieroglyph a, plus the red crown). Egyptian "in" is used at the beginning of a text and translates as: ''Behold!'', or ''Lo!'', and is an emphatic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「N-red crown (n hieroglyph)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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