16:29 · This sign appears among the Egyptian hieroglyphs and was originally a pictogram for a winding wall. This hieroglyph together with , the pictogram for house, could mean street, the winding walls of houses at the sides of a path make up a street.
    Mirrored and turned 90 degrees, it becomes , an ideogram for self in both early and more modern systems of Chinese writing.
    In dictionaries is sometimes used to indicate a compound word.
    Compare with , a sign used on clothes in Ghana called nkyin nyin, meaning transformation of self.