Sun (hieroglyph)
The Ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc; it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.
The sun hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to '"day xx" . Even the "snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a Hippopotamus head, Gardiner no. F3: F3 , with the sun-disc: N5 , as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block.F3-N5:Z1.
In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used on the Palermo Piece- of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific "day-events",..."day of...." A few of the King Year-Register's are dates only for example in Row V :
For: "Month 2, N11:N11 , Day N5 23".
Some other common hieroglyphs based on the sun hieroglyph, are the Sun-with-rays, Gardiner no. N8: N8 , and Sun-rising -, no. N28. N28 . In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone: "Appearance of the King of the South and Appearance of the King of the North".
Ra, the Sun-god is Gardiner listed no. C1, of the listed: Anthropomorphic Deities-. The God Ra is shown with a sun-disc upon his head - or another common form with the Sun disc, encircled with Uraeus, : C1