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Biliterals are hieroglyphs which were substituted in place of pairs of alphabet characters. The sound of the biliteral hieroglyph is the same as the sound of the the alphabet characters it replaces. Biliterals 'streamline' writings by eliminating large numbers of simpler characters.

Here are a few examples of biliterals:
HIEROGLYPH
COMBINES
PRONOUNCED
+
gm
+
kha
+
wen
+
wep
  +
djed
+
ges
+
hen
+
neb
+
adj

All hieroglyphs that appear are included in the Horus-Advanced hieroglyphic font available thru the downloads page.

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