mat eye. maui eyes. pau birds.
But, again, the picture of an object may stand for some idea symbolised by that object, thus becoming an ideograph, as in the following instances:
net honey. ba soul. pet to see.
Here the sacred ibis or the sacred bull symbolises the soul. The bee stands for honey, the eyes for the verb “to see.”
Yet again the Egyptian pictures may stand neither as pictures of things, nor as ideographs, but as having the phonetic value of a syllable.
pa the. meh to fill. pet the sky or heaven. χu to protect. t´a male.