Template:Hiero

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

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{{Hiero}} there are a number of subpages in this template space that are used for writing Egyptian hieroglyphs in Wikipedia articles. The codes for the <hiero> tags may be found at Help:WikiHiero syntax.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Templates for further details.

Parameters

1

name of hieroglyph

2

hieroglyph (<hiero> ... </hiero> expected)

|align=left / right / center

Position the whole hieroglyph box

|style=

Specify a custom style for the box

|era=

|BC=BC / BCE

|era=	era name	era as shown	bg color
pd	Naqada III	Naqada III (protodynastic) (3200–3000 BC)	plum
ed	Early Dynastic Period of Egypt	Early Dynastic Period (3150–2686 BC)	skyblue
ok	Old Kingdom of Egypt	Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC)	sandybrown
1ip	First Intermediate Period of Egypt	1st Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC)	crimson
mk	Middle Kingdom of Egypt	Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC)	gold
2ip	Second Intermediate Period of Egypt	2nd Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC)	red
nk	New Kingdom of Egypt	New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC)	palegoldenrod
3ip	Third Intermediate Period of Egypt	3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC)	lightcoral
lp	Late Period of Egypt	Late Period (664–332 BC)	palegreen
pt	Ptolemaic dynasty	Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BC)	aquamarine
egypt	Egypt extra		navajowhite
FooBar	FooBar		silver
			silver

|gardiner=

The identifier by Gardiner's sign list code (roughly, A–Z + number: A20, Z12)

|unicode=

The Unicode codepoint for this hieroglyph (format: looks like U+13008)

Template family

The most useful templates are:

Template	Bare-bones preview	Use
Template:Hiero	{{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A general-purpose template for displaying hieroglyphs.
Template:Hiero/2cartouche	{{{praenomen}}} praenomen or throne name {{{nomen}}} nomen or birth name {{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A template for royal names requiring two cartouches: for praenomen and nomen.
Template:Hiero/1cartouche	{{{nomen}}} nomen or birth name {{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A template for a cartouche name, where only one is known.
Template:Hiero/serekh	{{{horus}}} {{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A template for a Horus-name displayed in a serekh.
Template:Hiero/3name	{{{horus}}} serekh or Horus name {{{praenomen}}} praenomen or throne name {{{nomen}}} nomen or birth name {{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A template for a Horus name, praenomen and nomen.
Template:Hiero/5Fold	{{{horus}}} serekh or Horus name {{{nebty}}} Nebty name {{{goldenhorus}}} Golden Horus name {{{praenomen}}} praenomen or throne name {{{nomen}}} nomen or birth name {{{name}}} Egyptian hieroglyphs	A template for the Fivefold Titulary.

Template Data

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TemplateData for Hiero

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Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	1 name	no description	Unknown	required
2	2 image	<hiero> ... <hiero> expected	Unknown	required
align	align	no description	Unknown	optional
era	era	no description	Unknown	optional
BC	BC	BC or BCE Default BC	Unknown	optional
style	style	no description	Unknown	optional
unicode	unicode	no description	Unknown	optional
gardiner	gardiner	no description	Unknown	optional

Usage

Template:Hiero - 921 tc's in 799 Articles (March 2021, Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Hiero.)

Template:Hiero/2cartouche [1] - 0

Template:Hiero/1cartouche [2] - 7

Template:Hiero/serekh [3] - 0

Template:Hiero/3name [4] - 0

Template:Hiero/5Fold [5] - 1

See also

• {{Hiero/era}}
• {{Infobox hieroglyphs}}

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